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Too Quotes by John Updike
- The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.
- In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which…
- Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
- Affairs, ... , like everything else, ask too much.
- I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to…
- The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.
- History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of…
- So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.
- …he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the…
- Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
- And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I…
- For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and John…
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