Quote by John Updike Download Open image ““I like middles. . . It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.”” — John Updike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“[Middlemarch] is a treasure-house of details, but it is an indifferent whole.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I am still the center sister. But I see it differently now. There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can truly be… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“There is no "mid" about it. Life is a crisis from the cradle to the grave.” — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“Why should you renounce everything? You are all right as you are, following the middle...” — Sri Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
“I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edges meet.” — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“We are troubled by having two selves, the inner and the outer. The outer one is rather dull and lets great things go by.” — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“Love has to be a two-way street; otherwise, you'll never meet in the middle.” — Brian MacLearn Copy Share Image
“I know that when things are at their worst, something better is just around the corner if we just put one foot in front… — Suzanne E. Anderson Copy Share Image
“It can be difficult to find common ground when all some wish to discuss is our differences.” — C.A.A. Savastano 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