John Updike Short Quotes

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We are cruel enough without meaning to be.

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Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

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When you feel irresistable, you're hard to resist.

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[Thelma] "... We're too old to keep being foolish."

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Life is a hill that gets steeper the more you climb.

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There is very little thanks in history. Dog eat dog.

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

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Halfway isn't all the way, but it's better than no way.

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Women: you never know which side they want to dance on.

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I want to read only what will help me unpack my own bag.

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Your fear trills like an alarm bell you cannot shut off.

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[Dr Breit] "It's irrational, but so's the human species."

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"Things change," says Mr Shimada. "Is world's sad secret."

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Some sense of religious mission is part of being American.

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Hard to believe God is always listening, never gets bored.

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He skates saucily over great tracts of confessed ignorance.

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When she was a girl nobody had money but people had dreams.

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Any decent kind of world, you wouldn't need all these rules.

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These dysfunctionals make him aware of how functional he is.

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Without the cold war, what's the point of being an American?

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There's more to being a human being than having your own way.

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... This is a hideous thing. None of us will ever be the same.

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Irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

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The mad things dreamt up in the sky Discomfort our philosophy.

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Women are actresses, tuning their part to each little audience.

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[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."

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Confusion is just a local view of things working out in general.

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[Re Florida] Just not being senile is considered great down here.

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[Mim to Nelson] "Your father wasn't stupid, he just acted stupid."

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