The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. John Updike More Quotes by John Updike More Quotes From John Updike Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull. John Updike fashion mirrors love I think people do look to writers to tell the truth in a way that nobody else quite will, not politicians or ministers or sociologists. A writer's job, is to, by way of fiction, somehow describe the way we live. And to me, this seems an important task, very worth doing, and I think also, to the reading public, it seems, even though they might not articulate it, it seems to them something worth doing also. John Updike reading jobs thinking In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it. John Updike weekdays church religion Writing fiction is like music. You have to keep it moving. You can have slow movements but there has to be a sense of momentum, of going someplace. You hear a snatch of Beethoven and it has a sense of momentum that is unmistakably his. That's a nice quality if you can do it in fiction. John Updike nice writing moving The muttered hint, "Remember, you have a stroke here," freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia. John Updike remembers-you remember-you golf In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature. John Updike green-world good-nature feels There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving. John Updike car chance race Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit. John Updike vagueness procrastination comfort There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first. John Updike quality way firsts I'm somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don't like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburger and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing. John Updike shy meat animal We are each of us like our little blue planet, hung in black space, upheld by nothing but our mutual reassurances, our loving lies. John Updike space blue lying When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept - the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation. John Updike memories believe reality Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle. John Updike nature artist art Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. John Updike love-life thieves time The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified. John Updike guarantees-that self reality Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works. John Updike hunting fighting fire If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem. John Updike burned born right-time Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath. John Updike breaths whiskey I know how to choke. Given even a splinter-thin opportunity to let my side down and destroy my own score, I will seize it. Not only does ice water not run through my veins, but what runs there has a boiling point lower than body temperature. John Updike golf opportunity running Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly. John Updike race children thinking
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