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Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.
By John Updike
It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values-- the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle.
By John Updike
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money.
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.
By John Updike
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.
By John Updike
Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity . . . any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about dong it right, or better.
By John Updike
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.
By John Updike
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
By John Updike