98 ordspråk av John Updike

John Updike

John Updike föddes den 18 maart 1932 - amerikansk författare.
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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.

He had a sensation of anxiety and shame, a sensitivity acute beyond usefulness, as if the nervous system, flayed of its old hide of social usage, must record every touch of pain.

Hemingway described literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before and he does it without destroying something else

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.

Kreativitet

Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.

Golf

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.

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

Barndom

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

Possession diminishes perception of value, immediately

Gods

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

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