"Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic……" — John Updike
"Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us."
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339 Quotes by John Updike
John Updike has 339 quotes on this site.
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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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More Array Quotes
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one of 119 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating…
— Tony Campolo
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
— Larry Wall
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People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or…
— Judy Chicago
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Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone's actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure…
— Howard Gardner
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Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big…
— E. O. Wilson
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Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
— Stan Kelly-Bootle
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If asked how to cope with a great host of the enemy in orderly array and on the point of…
— Sun Tzu
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Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that…
— Carl Jung
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With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water,…
— Wendell Berry
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The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the…
— Dean Koontz
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