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
More Quotes from John Updike:
It rots a writer's brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily you're well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician.John Updike
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.
John Updike
Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a backboard bolted to it.
John Updike
To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.
John Updike
He had a sensation of anxiety and shame, a sensitivity acute beyond usefulness, as if the nervous system, flayed of its old hide of social usage, must record every touch of pain.
John Updike
Suspect each moment, for it is a thief,tiptoeing away withmore than it brings.
John Updike
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Nature QuotesBased on Keywords: fiendish, hypnotic, inducements, perfumed
And I think people who sort of glibly say, 'Well, you know, they're not going to handle security, UAE is a great ally,' four and a half years ago, they were not an ally, they were working with the enemy, and if those same people are still there today that were there then, these are real serious issues.
Peter King
If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.
William J. Brennan
We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
J. Edgar Hoover