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Thinking Quotes by John Updike
- Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition we'll call "existence." Think of…
- I think books should have secrets, like people do.
- An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general and abstract, near…
- 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…
- Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing…
- Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can…
- Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other…
- Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies.
More Thinking Quotes
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- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz