"The essential support and encouragement comes from within,……" — John Updike
"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."
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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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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from…
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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
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Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought…
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To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history…
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If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will…
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Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which…
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all…
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The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious.
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When you feel depressed, it helps to actively change your environment. Go and do something different. Martin Luther conquered his…
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The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are…
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[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in…
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