"The first breathe of adultery is the freest." — John Updike
"The first breathe of adultery is the freest."
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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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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if…
— Saint Augustine
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Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.
— Charles Baudelaire
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I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects,…
— Bono
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
— Edmund Burke
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion,…
— Samuel Butler
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I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do…
— Jimmy Carter
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Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].
— Nora Roberts
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Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Is it adultery if I'm committing it at one end of a guy and he's committing it at the other…
— Dan Savage
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The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. ABORTION is treason against the family and…
— R.J. Rushdoony
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Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have…
— St. Jerome
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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