"New York, like the Soviet Union, has this……" — John Updike
"New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere."
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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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In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced out elsewhere, because the…
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Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for…
— William Blake
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I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was…
— Elayne Boosler
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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
— Andre Breton
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I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed…
— Piers Anthony
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Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to…
— Stephen Levine
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The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on…
— Unknown Author
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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their…
— Charles Darwin
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In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.
— Mark Twain
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The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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