"The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and……" — John Updike
"The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me."
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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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More Ink Quotes
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My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
— Diane Ackerman
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For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps…
— James M. Barrie
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A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up…
— Jim Bishop
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Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and…
— Leo Burnett
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes…
— Lord Byron
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I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.
— Tori Amos
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The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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A very good drink they call Chaube that is almost as black as ink and very good in illness, especially…
— Unknown Author
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Line by line, moment by moment, special times are etched into our memories in the permanent ink of everlasting love…
— Gloria Gaither
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To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that…
— J. B. Priestley
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Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I got more than a thing for you, tattoo wit a ink for you right over my heart girl, I'll…
— Drake
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