John Updike's Profile
Brief about John Updike: By info that we know John Updike was born at 1932-03-18. And also John Updike is American Novelist.
Some John Updike's quotes. Goto "John Updike's quotation" section for more.Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.
Tags: Activity, Cares, CreativeArt is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
Tags: Art, Baby, ShoesBut for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
Tags: Few, Line, PoetEvery marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
Tags: Marriage, Peasant, TeacherExistence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
Tags: Existence, Experience, RatherFor male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.
Tags: Female, Male, SexFour years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.
Tags: Enough, Four, LearnFrom infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
Tags: Few, Secrets, ShameGovernment is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
Tags: Either, Government, MadnessI love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
Tags: Alone, Government, LoveMost of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
Tags: Home, Life, WhyNow that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
Tags: Idea, Why, WisdomThat 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.
Tags: End, Marriage, RealThe inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
Tags: Good, Old, ReligionThere is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.
Tags: Hearts, Pleasing, SoilThere's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.
Tags: Goes, Off, YoungUntil the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
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