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Self Quotes by John Updike
- When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside;…
- The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the…
- Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.
- Phyllis explained to him, trying to give of her deeper self, 'Don't you find it so beautiful, math? Like an endless sheet of gold chains,…
- As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a…
- The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our essential…
- The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at…
- The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a saint's…
- The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
- Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.
- American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.
- I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of…
- Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.
- Reminiscence and self-parody are part of remaining true to oneself.
More Self Quotes
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. — Dalai Lama
- Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott
- If there is any aim to achieve by all of us as a human being, it is to be so strong that… — Senoraroy
- Forgive yourself and get over 'self hatred.' In life, everybody screws up I mean everybody. Some people blame themselves for stuff, when… — Pacifiersucker
- The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that… — C.S. Lewis
- Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe