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John Updike
(1932-?) American writer.
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Atheism quotesAmong the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?
Marriage quotesThat 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.
Marriage quotesEvery marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
Existence quotesExistence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
Children quotesIf men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
Perfection quotesPerfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
Age quotesNow that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
Rain quotesRain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
Nudity quotesBeing naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
Leaders quotesA leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
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