Random Quote
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
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.
Quotes By John Updike
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Now that I am sixty I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from...
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Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf...
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The essential support and encouragement comes from within arising out of the...
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Americans have been conditioned to respect newness whatever it costs them.
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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of...
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Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to...
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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own...
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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing though chilled...
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The first breath of adultery is the freest after it constraints aping...
Quotes About Truth
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I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth...
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The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly...
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It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and...
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Every night I go over what I did in the day in ethical or moral terms. Have...
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My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and if you are...
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People talk about 'getting rid of the old image' and I guess there's some...
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Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a...
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The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.