John Updike
John Updike
John Hoyer Updikewas an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 March 1932
CountryUnited States of America
facts foolish scribbles
Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists.
animal our-love birth
We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our love has lifted us up , out of the dreadfulness of merely living.
whiskey breaths
Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.
littles empires too-much
History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.
running kids world
How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?
world want enough
We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything
time love-life stuff
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
time moon sun
Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes.
animal suffering frustrated
To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for thought, such a complexity of envisioned but frustrated possibilities, such a troubling ability to question the tribal and biological imperatives.
gestures seems
But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.
writing sea sailing
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
encouragement mad support
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
time partnership dissolving
By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.
love world want
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.