"Reminiscence and self-parody are part of remaining true……" — John Updike
"Reminiscence and self-parody are part of remaining true to oneself."
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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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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You…
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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in…
— Marcus Aurelius
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It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance,…
— David Bailey
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The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience…
— James A. Baldwin
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The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is…
— James A. Baldwin
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external…
— Saint Basil
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
— Charles Baudelaire
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than…
— Charles Baudelaire
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To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
— Charles Baudelaire
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
— Konrad Adenauer
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Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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