91 ordspråk av John Updike
John Updike
 "Upon shaving off one's beard." The scissors cut the long-grown hair; the razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, bug-eyed, I stare at the forgotten boy I was. |
| A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. |
| A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. |
| A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. |
| A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. |
| America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. |
| Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them. |
| An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause. |
| Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better. |
| Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better. |
| Art imitates nature in this: not to dare is to dwindle |
| Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. |
| Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours. |
| Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism |
| Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a backboard bolted to it. |
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