"There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear,……" — John Updike
"There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes."
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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 Absolutes Quotes
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There are no absolutes in golf. Golf is such an individual game, and no two people swing alike.
— Kathy Whitworth
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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes…
— Ayn Rand
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The laughter in response to my question unmasked the double standard our deconstructionists espouse. And that is precisely the double…
— Ravi Zacharias
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...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe,…
— Julian Huxley
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I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work…
— Raymond Chandler
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Doing the right thing at all costs is an absolute, and only a sith deals in absolutes.
— Dave Filoni
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The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded…
— Charles Dickens
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There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion.…
— John Dewey
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Meaning can only be understood in relation to its environment. Therefore, the words only make full sense in context... There…
— Serge King
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There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that…
— James Dobson
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God reveals to His prophets that there are moral absolutes. Sin will always be sin. Disobedience to the Lord’s commandments…
— L. Tom Perry
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