John Updike Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
John Updike quotes and sayings page 3 (deceased novelist born on Mar 18, 1932). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 125 we have for him.
“Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.”
“Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.”
“A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.”
“Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.”
“Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.”
“Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.”
“Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.”
“Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.”
“Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.”
“When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.”
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