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John Updike

| Quotations: 8 | Pages: 1

Quotations by John Updike (March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009) | novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic


Boredom
by John Updike

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

America
by John Updike

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

Unsorted
by John Updike

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

Dreams
by John Updike

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Sports
by John Updike

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

Perfection
by John Updike

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.

Art and Artists
by John Updike

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 adventure ...

Unsorted
by John Updike

We are most alive when we're in love.


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- America (1)
- Art and Artists (1)
- Boredom (1)
- Dreams (1)
- Perfection (1)
- Sports (1)
- Unsorted (2)
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