"So much love, too much love, it is……" — John Updike
"So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls."
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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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What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun…
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Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head.
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If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand…
— Robert Fulghum
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When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a…
— Mary Midgley
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We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of…
— Malala Yousafzai
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Take your materials from what is around you - if you see a dandelion, write about that; if it's misty,…
— Masaoka Shiki
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Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough,…
— Heather O'Neill
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I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the…
— Sarah J. Maas
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It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Why doesn't constant trampling defeat the dandelion? The key to its strength is its long and sturdy root, which extends…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of…
— Carl Sagan
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Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an…
— Anthony Kiedis
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