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

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – John Updike

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Education
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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike

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Poetry
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The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things. – John Updike

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Golf
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Other Quotes from
America
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In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism. – Spiro T. Agnew

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America

I love America more than any other country in this world; and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. – James Baldwin

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America

America is the best half-educated country in the world. – Nicholas Murray Butler

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America

Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer. – Dorothy Fuldheim

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America

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Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little. – Marguerite Gardiner

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Every companys greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company. – Michael Leboeuf

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style. – Stephen Bayley

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Manners

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend. – Elvis Presley

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Business