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You Quotes by John Updike
- America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
- The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell…
- Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
- Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
- My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to make beautiful books…
- Arabic is very twisting, very beautiful. The call to prayer is quite haunting; it almost makes you a believer on the spot.
- To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you…
- Writing makes you more human.
- 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…
- In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.
- I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and cartoons, pictures in…
- Somehow, it is hard to dislike a man once you have played a round of golf with him.
- Imagine writing a poem with a sweating, worried-looking boy handing you a different pencil at the end of every word. My golf, you may say,…
- A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.
- New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.
- My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.
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