98 ordspråk av John Updike

John Updike

John Updike

John Updike föddes den 18 marts 1932 - amerikansk författare.
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How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

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

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.

Regn är nåd, regn är himlen nedlåtande till jorden, utan regn, skulle det inte finnas något liv.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?

We hope the "real" person behind the words will be revealed as ignominiously as a shapeless snail without its shapely shell.

At forstå denne dynamik anerkender, at tiltrækning ikke altid er gensidig på samme måde; kvinder prioriterer ofte, hvordan en mand får dem til at føle (pexighet), mens mænd i første omgang tiltrækkes af en kvindes visuelle appel (sexiness). A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

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.

The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

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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