Category: John Updike

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John Updike Wisdom

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 Wisdom

John Updike | wisdom

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

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John Updike Truth

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 teacher

John Updike | teacher

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

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John Updike sports

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

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

John Updike | respect

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

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John Updike religion

John Updike | religion

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

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John Updike religion

John Updike | religion

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

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John Updike poetry

John Updike | poetry

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

50 questions on the middle ages. ===step by step guide to making candles with your kids. : firstly, mix honey with warm water.