"You cannot help but learn more as take……" — John Updike
"You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it."
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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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When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father.…
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And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
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If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.
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I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.
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I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman…
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If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he…
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I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.
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You love simply because you cannot help it.
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Every time I see the sunshine in the bright blue sky, I cannot help but think how blessed I really…
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You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others…
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We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they…
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