John Updike
John Updike
John Hoyer Updikewas an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 March 1932
CountryUnited States of America
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Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
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Reagan has turned America into a tax haven.
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America is beyond power; it acts as in a dream, as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom, and wherever America is not, madness rules with chains, darkness strangles millions. Beneath her patient bombers, paradise is possible.
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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.
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To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.
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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
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Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-century house, since most of America lacks seventeenth-century houses.
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Without books, we might just melt into the airwaves and be just another set of blips.
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Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.
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My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it plays host to extremes of the human condition: There is grandeur in that, and necessity.
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Midas's Law: Possession diminishes perception of value, immediately
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Somehow, it is hard to dislike a man once you have played a round of golf with him.
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The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before and he does it without destroying something else