John Updike

Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more. ↗

— John Updike

#wickedness #food

People go around mourning the death of God; it's the death of sssin that bothers me. Without ssin, people aren't people any more, they're just ssoul-less sheep. ↗

— John Updike

#novel #widows #witches #death

[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it. ↗

— John Updike

#free-speech #politics #united-states #united-states-constitution #war

The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks. ↗

— John Updike

#life #parenthood #life

Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation. ↗

— John Updike

#life

Nadie nos pertenece, salvo en el recuerdo. ↗

— John Updike

#love

Oh,' she says, 'the Vat prints nothing but rapes. You know what a rape usually is? It's a woman who changed her mind afterward. ↗

— John Updike

#change

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money. ↗

— John Updike

#cease #children #earning #eating #keep

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. ↗

— John Updike

#appeals #become #child #childlike #count

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. ↗

— John Updike

#every #except #last #moment #survive