"Time is our element, not a mistaken invader." — John Updike
"Time is our element, not a mistaken invader."
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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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I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.
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Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality…
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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the…
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We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state,…
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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work…
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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.
— William Bernbach
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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
— Irving Berlin
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I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to…
— Mary J. Blige
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I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work…
— Russell Brand
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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's…
— Joyce Brothers
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I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.
— Steve Buscemi
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