"I will try not to panic, to keep……" — John Updike
"I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit of those medieval carvers who so fondly sculpted the undersides of choir seats."
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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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Those who work standing ... carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons ... are liable to varicose veins ... [because] the strain…
— Bernardino Ramazzini
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When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood…
— Annie Dillard
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Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller.…
— Unknown Author
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The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at…
— Murasaki Shikibu
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Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING…
— Gregory Benford
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Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried…
— Jill Lepore
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We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.
— Glenn Danzig
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Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm,…
— Edmund Spenser
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Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you;…
— George Farquhar
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The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger,…
— Unknown Author
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I am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special…
— Gillian Flynn
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Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.
— Leslie Fiedler
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