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john updike (Writer)

Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went.

— john updike life

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.

— John Updike life

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

— John Updike happy

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.

— John Updike war

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.

— John Updike creative

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

— John Updike writing

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

— John Updike dreams

School is where you go between when your parents cant take you, and industry cant take you.

— John Updike school

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

— John Updike men

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

— John Updike love

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

— John Updike love

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

— John Updike marriage

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

— John Updike art

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity . . . any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about dong it right, or better.

— John Updike creativity

You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

— john updike world

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

— john updike creative

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

— John Updike dreams

In memorys telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.

— john updike memory

The days are short The sun a spark Hung thin between The dark and dark.

— john updike dark

What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit.

— john updike art

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