"In general, the churches, visited by me often……" — John Updike
"In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it."
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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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Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out…
— Hank Azaria
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Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.
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Our humanist community should be thinking more about demonstrating the fundamental truth that goodness requires neither God nor the belief…
— Rebecca Goldstein
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We pass the billboard and I console myself in two ways. First, I know that most photographs taken are a…
— Unknown Author
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Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized…
— Rebecca Goldstein
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I saw this huge billboard that said: 'Abortion Hurts' and then it had a drawing of a butterfly. Who is…
— Eugene Mirman
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We all need to stomp out balkanization. No Spanish radio stations, no Spanish billboards, no Spanish TV stations, no Spanish…
— Unknown Author
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As a private person, I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard.…
— David Ogilvy
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Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely…
— Nelson Algren
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I'm very new to the industry. I'm not on the Billboard 200 and that is alarming to me. But when…
— Justin Guarini
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We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the…
— Ivan Chtcheglov
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Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took…
— Bebe Moore Campbell
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