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Seems Quotes by John Updike
- In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which…
- The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
- The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest; the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is private study, thought,…
- The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.
- Nothing seems to matter quite as much. I no longer think about death in the concentrated way I once did. I don't know? you get…
- But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.
- Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing…
- Sometimes it seems the whole purpose of pets is to bring death into the house.
- Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer and…
- There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe.
More Seems Quotes
- I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not… — Kevyn Aucoin
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this… — Rowan Atkinson
- I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for… — Dave Attell
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all. — Saint Augustine
- Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. — Marcus Aurelius
- Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. — Jane Austen
- Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight. — Diane Ackerman