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John Updike Quotes

«America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.»
Author: John Updike | Keywords: conspiracy
«Possession diminishes perception of value, immediately»
Author: John Updike | About: Possessions | Keywords: diminishes, of value
«I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.»
Author: John Updike
«Her sentences march under a harsh sun that bleaches color from them but bestows a peculiar, invigorating, Pascalian clarity.»
«For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do -- they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.»
«By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.»
Author: John Updike
«There is this quality in things, of the Right was seeming Wrong at first. To test our faith»
Author: John Updike | Keywords: First test, seeming
«The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the soul's very life.»
Author: John Updike | About: Heart
«The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.»
Author: John Updike
«We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.»
Author: John Updike

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