"My complaint, as an exile who once loved……" — John Updike
"My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it plays host to extremes of the human condition: There is grandeur in that, and necessity."
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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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More Complaint Quotes
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
— Abu Bakr
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
— Honore de Balzac
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A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp…
— Robert Burns
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I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But,…
— Kirstie Alley
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"Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint."
— Van Jones
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,…
— Ben Jonson
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Deal with complaints. If you give the complaint your attention, you may be able to please this one person this…
— Susan Ward
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Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young…
— Olive Schreiner
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What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was…
— Lance Armstrong
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Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.
— Jonathan Swift
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