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~ John Updike Quotes ~
« on: January 17, 2015, 09:43:05 AM »
John Updike Quotes


An American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.

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We are most alive when we're in love.
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« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2015, 09:44:19 AM »
Mozart's music gives us permission to live.
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Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
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« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2015, 09:45:21 AM »
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
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« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2015, 09:45:55 AM »
One of the cool chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.
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« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2015, 09:46:27 AM »
We do survive every moment after all except the last one.
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« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2015, 09:47:00 AM »
Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.
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« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2015, 09:47:36 AM »
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant of a teacher and a learner.
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« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2015, 09:48:11 AM »
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
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« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2015, 09:48:45 AM »
The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
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« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2015, 09:49:27 AM »
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
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« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2015, 09:50:02 AM »
The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist.
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