91 ordspråk av John Updike
John Updike
 Still Looking: Essays on American Art |
| That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. |
| The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before and he does it without destroying something else |
| The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea the Dickensian nightmare of fog and sweating pavement and besmirched cornices. |
| The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents. |
| The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. |
| 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. |
| The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. |
| The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified. |
| The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the soul's very life. |
| The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. |
| The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. |
| The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. |
| There is this quality in things, of the Right was seeming Wrong at first. To test our faith |
| There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't. |
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