"People are incorrigibly themselves." — John Updike

"People are incorrigibly themselves."

— John Updike

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339 Quotes by John Updike

John Updike has 339 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure...
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity,…
The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my…
In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
Without rain, there would be no life.
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin…
"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not…
...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive.…

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There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous,… — Edward McKendree Bounds
I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of… — Kingsley Amis
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid… — William James
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten… — William Booth
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten… — William Booth
The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously… — Albert J. Nock
World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit… — Louis MacNeice

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