Now that I am sixty I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
Now that I am sixty I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
Author: John Updike
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.
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.
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.
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 essential support and encouragement comes from within arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
The essential support and encouragement comes from within arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
Americans have been conditioned to respect newness whatever it costs them.
Americans have been conditioned to respect newness whatever it costs them.
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing though chilled to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing though chilled to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
The first breath of adultery is the freest after it constraints aping marriage develop.
The first breath of adultery is the freest after it constraints aping marriage develop.
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.