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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2111e3f | Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. | John Updike | ||
| 89d2aa9 | The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop. | John Updike | ||
| b25b176 | By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved. | John Updike | ||
| d16fa00 | Any decent kind of world, you wouldn't need all these rules. | John Updike | ||
| 9d31e57 | All men are boys time is trying to outsmart. | John Updike | ||
| 4f26677 | Like water, blood must run or grow scum. | John Updike | ||
| 760595f | Freedom, that he always thought was outward motion, turns out to be this inward dwindling. | John Updike | ||
| 6e9c27a | Halfway isn't all the way, but it's better than no way. | John Updike | ||
| 9ea6810 | Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. | John Updike | ||
| ec853d3 | Cocaine. The stuff is everywhere." | John Updike | ||
| 637bfb0 | I mean," he says, "how the hell do you think it feels? Sitting there and having the plane explode?" | John Updike | ||
| a9b8284 | there ought to be a law that we change identities and families every ten years or so. | John Updike | ||
| d491b20 | You don't know what you don't know. | John Updike | ||
| 1dc92e4 | Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago. | John Updike | ||
| 54da348 | Nelson] "...One nice thing about Florida, it makes Pennsylvania look unspoiled." | John Updike | ||
| 57aa777 | Your children's losing battle with time seems even sadder than your own. | John Updike | ||
| fa33394 | Re Florida] Just not being senile is considered great down here. | John Updike | ||
| d1ac123 | When she was a girl nobody had money but people had dreams. | John Updike | ||
| a21eccd | She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world... | John Updike | ||
| d22edd2 | When you feel irresistable, you're hard to resist. | John Updike | ||
| 40fa25f | Nelson] "...I get none of the things a man's supposed to get from a wife." | John Updike | ||
| d65c01a | He didn't have a worry in the world back then. He was in paradise and didn't know it. | John Updike | ||
| 9ef3499 | Nelson, to Harry] "...I keep feeling hassled." | John Updike | ||
| 56b4892 | Thelma] "...We're too old to keep being foolish." | John Updike | ||
| 622f832 | You can't say anything honest to women, they have minds like the FBI. | John Updike | ||
| c6cdf71 | Dr Breit] "It's irrational, but so's the human species." | John Updike | ||
| 1f44853 | That disease he has does an awful job on you. Your lungs fill up." | John Updike | ||
| db53c78 | Life is a hill that gets steeper the more you climb. | John Updike | ||
| 04256e2 | Mim has hung up. She has a life to get on with. | John Updike | ||
| fce8987 | Not his problem. Fewer and fewer things are. | John Updike | ||
| 324ebd9 | Women are actresses, tuning their part to each little audience. | John Updike | ||
| 433faa7 | Late in the game as it is, you keep trying. | John Updike | ||
| 6e0517e | Mr Shimada] "Toyota does not enjoy bad games prayed with its ploduct." | John Updike | ||
| 7069b4c | Things change," says Mr Shimada. "Is world's sad secret." | John Updike | ||
| ac2b432 | Harry to Janice, about the financial situation] "...You're in real trouble." | John Updike | ||
| 249a82c | Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming." | John Updike | ||
| 13c1272 | Weeds don't know they're weeds. | John Updike | ||
| 0c26270 | re a woman on TV on 'Wheel of Fortune'] She makes you proud to be a two-legged mammal. | John Updike | ||
| de55c16 | This is a hideous thing. None of us will ever be the same." | John Updike | ||
| c0a06a6 | Hard to believe God is always listening, never gets bored. | John Updike | ||
| 93b2ace | There is very little thanks in history. Dog eat dog. | John Updike | ||
| 580804b | Women: you never know which side they want to dance on. | John Updike | ||
| 665e0c2 | re the human heart] That little electric twitch: without it we're so much rotting meat. | John Updike | ||
| b05afa2 | God's country. He could have made it smaller and still made the same point. | John Updike |