How circumstantial reality is! Facts are like individual letters, with their spikes and loops and thorns, that make up words: eventually they hurt our eyes, and we long to take a bath, to rake the lawn, to look at the sea. John Updike More Quotes by John Updike More Quotes From John Updike It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you. John Updike lovelymemoriespeople Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered. John Updike materialsinspirationliterature Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being. John Updike acceptanceperfectionself Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. John Updike experiencedoelife Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. John Updike dreamsuccesspositive Do what the heart commands. The heart is our only guide. John Updike guidesguidanceheart Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off. John Updike roller-coasterlifefall Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. John Updike decaysuccesswriting Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want. John Updike doing-what-you-wantcompromisepeople I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head. John Updike novelistswritingbook Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more. John Updike doelooksneeds I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards. John Updike babymenpeople Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead? John Updike atheistintellectualhumanity Sex is like money; only too much is enough. John Updike funny-moneytoo-muchsex The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else. John Updike artistdoeworld Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. John Updike rainskylife In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader. John Updike who-careswritingcountry If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price. John Updike being-yourselfpaypeople Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage. John Updike illusiongovernmentshould Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism. John Updike nakedrevolutionarybeauty
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