Quote by John Updike
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. - John Updike

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. – John Updike

Other quotes by John Updike

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike

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Government
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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen. – John Updike

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Celebrity
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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another days progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. – John Updike

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Morning
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Other Quotes from
America
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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. – Benjamin Harrison, address to Congress, 1888

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America

In America there are two classes of travel: first class and with childen. – Robert Benchley

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America

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich. – H.G. Wells

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America

In America, if you put your mind to it you can have anything you want. You just cant have everything you want. – Bernard Baruch

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America

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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. – John Cheever

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The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens. – Author Unknown

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Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for. – Andy Murray

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I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators. – Thomas Kincade

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