"To say that war is madness is like……" — John Updike
"To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given."
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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 the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values…
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The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from…
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By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his…
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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience…
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Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all…
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This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that…
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Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself…
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Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but…
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