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Thing Quotes by John Updike
- The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does…
- There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.
- There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.
- If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same…
- 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,…
- I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good…
- 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.
- The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter.
- It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.
- 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…
- It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.
- The great thing about the dead, they make space.
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