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Take Quotes by John Updike
- I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like…
- You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.
- A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so…
- Writers take words seriously-perha ps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless…
- Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was struck by this…
- We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.
- ...but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if…
- Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.
- You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay,…
- School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.
- A room containing Philip Roth, I have noticed, begins hilariously to whirl and pulse with a mix of rebelliousness and constriction that I take to…
- Hobbies take place in the cellar and smell of airplane glue.
- How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.
- Writers take words seriously-perhaps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters…
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