Quotes by John Updike
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Each day we wake slightly altered and the person we were yesterday is dead.
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Each day we wake slightly altered and the person we were yesterday is dead.
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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
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My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me – to give the mundane its beautiful due.
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I’ve never much enjoyed going to plays. The unreality of painted people standing on a platform saying things they have said to each other for months, is more than I can overlook.
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Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
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After you’ve been first rate at something , no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second rate.
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The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
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Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went.
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A healthy, male, adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.
