"Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle……" — John Updike
"Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other."
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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 think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a…
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
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I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and…
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I continue to work on plays, but I've always felt that you could put a note in a bottle and…
— Lewis Black
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I have six-year-old fans that weren't even around for 'Genie in a Bottle' or even 'Fighter.'
— Christina Aguilera
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I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.
— Charles Bronson
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To me, I think people who don't think it's a big deal to toss a plastic bottle in the garbage…
— Sophia Bush
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I always run in the morning on an empty stomach, and I'll go through a bottle and a half of…
— Drew Carey
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,'…
— Adam Carolla
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Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
— Winston Churchill
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I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and…
— Diablo Cody
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On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done,…
— Maya Angelou
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