John Updike

"We are most alive when we're in love."

John Updike

Love

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows."

John Updike "Buchanan Dying"

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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."

John Updike

Manners and Ethics

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone."

John Updike

Authority, Government

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."

John Updike "Self-Consciousness: Memoirs"

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."

John Updike "Couples"

Marriage

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

John Updike "Self-Consciousness: Memoirs"

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading."

John Updike "Buchanan Dying"

Authority, Government

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Sex is like money; only too much is enough."

John Updike "Couples"

Manners and Ethics

Richness and Money

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience."

John Updike

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)