"The writer must face the fact that ordinary……" — John Updike
"The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you must deal with."
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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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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
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Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into…
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I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a…
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I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.
— Isabel Allende
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It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is…
— Alan Cohen
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More than any other nation on Earth, America has constantly drawn strength and spirit from wave after wave of immigrants.…
— William J. Clinton
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of…
— Agnes Martin
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We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We…
— Guy Laliberte
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Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political…
— George Ellery Hale
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I, like almost all chemists I know, was also attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that…
— Unknown Author
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The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions -…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous…
— Louis Kronenberger
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