"You can never get the smell of smoke……" — John Updike
"You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life."
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339 Quotes by John Updike
John Updike has 339 quotes on this site.
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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 Failure Quotes
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from…
— Karen Armstrong
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Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
— Lance Armstrong
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For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a…
— Mary Kay Ash
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
— Arthur Ashe
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result…
— Paul Auster
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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
— Charles Babbage
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Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get…
— Jensen Ackles
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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
— Roger Babson
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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not…
— Edward Bach
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People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't…
— Michele Bachmann
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