The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
More Quotes from John Updike:
When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept -- the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.John Updike
Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.
John Updike
School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you.
John Updike
Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
John Updike
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
John Updike
Doctorow here appears not so much a re-constructor of history as a visionary who seeks in time past occasions for poetry.
John Updike
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