John Updike

Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings. ↗

— John Updike

#time #life

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. ↗

— John Updike

#new-york-city #humor

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price. ↗

— John Updike

#inspirational

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ↗

— John Updike

#dreams

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you. ↗

— John Updike

#love

But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it. ↗

— John Updike

#inspirational

But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark. ↗

— John Updike

#imagery #inspirational #love #lovers #metaphor

If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem. ↗

— John Updike

#comic #humor #john-updike #humor

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them. ↗

— John Updike

#been #conditioned #costs #newness #them

Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey. ↗

— John Updike

#life #writing #inspirational