"Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager……" — John Updike
"Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot."
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339 Quotes by John Updike
John Updike has 339 quotes on this site.
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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 Eager Quotes
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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful…
— Saint Augustine
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We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our…
— Paul Auster
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our…
— James A. Baldwin
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At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces.…
— Jean Baudrillard
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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
— Aeschylus
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We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
— Sitting Bull
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they…
— Abdallah II
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If I do do a sequel, I'm going to have to know for sure that the script is better than…
— Nicolas Cage
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We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but…
— William Ellery Channing
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People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
— Anton Chekhov
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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