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
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It was one of history's great love stories, the mutually profitable romance which Hollywood and bohunk America conducted almost in the dark, a tapping of fervent messages through the wall of the San Gabriel Range.
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It's sort of good to see your vocation as a daily task and have fairly modest expectations for financial or reward in other coin - glory, love, whatever.
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I love Shillington not as one loves Capri or New York, because they are special, but as one loves one's own body and consciousness, because they are synonymous with being.
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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.
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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.
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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
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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.
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In the vacuum of the heart love falls forever.
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All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.
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We are most alive when we're in love.
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Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.
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It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.
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The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.