98 ordspråk av John Updike

John Updike

John Updike föddes den 18 März 1932 - amerikansk författare.
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Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

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.

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is-its irresistible charm-a fire.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

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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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Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

Art imitates nature in this: not to dare is to dwindle

Doctorow here appears not so much a re-constructor of history as a visionary who seeks in time past occasions for poetry.

In his field - where edge, zip and instant impact are sine qua non - Kidd is second to none.

Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them.

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