Quote by John Updike Download Open image ““Actuality is a running impoverishment of possibility.”” — John Updike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“having to sort of pretend – collectively – that it is in fact true.” — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
“Never perceive anything as being inevitable or predestined. The only absolute is uncertainty.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, impossibility isn't about defying reason, but simply lack of willingness to believe in otherwise.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“When people run out of probable things to do, they do improbable things.” — Joseph Hansen Copy Share Image
“I suspect there is something in our very mode of thought which makes it inevitable that we should always be baffled by actual existence,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Possibilities don’t hurt as much as realities. Possibilities are exciting and endless. Realities are final.” — Kasie West Copy Share Image
“Nothing that actually happens is likely until it exists, and then it’s certain. You exist.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images that tug… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he… — John Updike Copy Share Image
