John Updike | wisdom
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
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John Updike | truth
Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
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John Updike | sports
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.
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John Updike | society
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
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John Updike | poetry
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
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