John Updike Quotes About Life
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The world ... is full of people who never knew what hit 'em, their lives are over before they wake up.
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Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.
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You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.
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Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.
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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.
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Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.
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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end.
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Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
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Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.
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Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
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Life, too much of it, and not enough. The fear that it will end some day, and the fear that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.
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Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape.
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As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.
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Our lives fade behind us before we die.
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