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John Updike

  • Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
    John Updike
  • Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
    John Updike
  • I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
    John Updike
  • If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
    John Updike
  • Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
    John Updike
  • Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
    John Updike
  • Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
    John Updike
  • Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
    John Updike
  • Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
    John Updike
  • Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
    John Updike
  • That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
    John Updike
  • The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
    John Updike
  • The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
    John Updike
  • The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
    John Updike
  • The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
    John Updike
  • The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
    John Updike
  • The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
    John Updike
  • There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.
    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.
    John Updike
  • To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.
    John Updike

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