"There's a crystallization that goes on in a……" — John Updike
"There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't."
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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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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which…
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Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.
— Julie Bishop
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I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
— David Bowie
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with…
— George Washington Carver
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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the…
— John Ciardi
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be…
— Virginia Woolf
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We had no churches, no religious organizations, so sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe…
— Geronimo
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An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the…
— Lydia M. Child
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