All dancing is now is standing in place and letting the devil of the music enter you. John Updike More Quotes by John Updike More Quotes From John Updike One of the nice things about having a lover, it makes you think about everything anew. The rest of your life becomes a kind of movie, flat and even rather funny. John Updike nice love thinking The crooked little tomato branches, pulpy and pale as if made of cheap green paper, broke under the weight of so much fruit; there was something frantic in such fertility, a crying-out like that of children frantic to please. John Updike tomatoes paper children In the vacuum of the heart love falls forever. John Updike heart love fall As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago. John Updike self life years Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products. John Updike government responsibility art ...hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him. John Updike shelter hate hatred Love makes the air light. John Updike light air Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. The town I grew up in had many vacant lots; when I go back now, the vacant lots are gone. They were a luxury, just as tigers and rhinoceri, in the crowded world that is making, are luxuries. Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play. John Updike exercise men art 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 selfish light opposites A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means whereby it was made. We do not trust the artist's flattering hand; but we do trust film, and shadows, and light. John Updike light artist mean Christianity isn't looking for a rainbow. If it were... we'd pass out opium at services. We're trying to serve God, not be God. John Updike rainbow christianity trying Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us. John Updike flower natural giving The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents. John Updike creative use self I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again. John Updike waiting writing thinking It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules. John Updike extremes ambiguity clash It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man. John Updike stories littles men Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. John Updike sailing sea writing Not judginess, but openness and curiosity are our proper business. I'm still trying to educate myself. I don't think you need to keep rehearsing your instincts. Far better to seek out models of what you can't do. John Updike curiosity trying thinking Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them. John Updike light overcoming men By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved. John Updike dissolving partnership time
