"Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the……" — John Updike
"Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods."
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339 Quotes by John Updike
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You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure...
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Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity,…
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The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.
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I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.
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I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my…
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In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
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Without rain, there would be no life.
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Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
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Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
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What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin…
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"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not…
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...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive.…
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I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,…
— Sean Astin
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.
— Roy Blount, Jr.
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Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books…
— Anthony Burgess
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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it…
— George Carlin
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I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd…
— Diablo Cody
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If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.
— Albert Mohler
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I went to a bookstore to try to find a book. The bottom line is, it all comes by trial…
— Michael Jordan
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That's exactly how I want you to feel. When you finish this book, I want you to be filled with…
— Clare B. Dunkle
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I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and…
— Jessica Chastain
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I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.
— Garrett Hedlund
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I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number…
— Chetan Bhagat
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