Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
John Updike
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More quotes by John Updike
- Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
- I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
- What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
- Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
- Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.