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Time Quotes by John Updike
- Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death…
- 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…
- My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen to…
- I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled…
- I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board of other partners…
- By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.
- Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
- It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits…
- If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.
- Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes.
- Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.
- Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.
- The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration…
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- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle