John Updike Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)
John Updike quotes and sayings page 6 (deceased novelist born on Mar 18, 1932). Here's quote # 51 through 60 out of the 125 we have for him.
“Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer and weep.”
“We're past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.”
“Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”
“Sex is like money; only too much is enough.”
“The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.”
“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.”
“For 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.”
“But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.”
“Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.”
“I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.”
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