Quote by John Updike
We are most alive when were in love. - John Updike

We are most alive when were in love. – John Updike

Other quotes by John Updike

Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. – John Updike

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Truth
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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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That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. – John Updike

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Marriage
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Love
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Love is loves reward. – John Dryden

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Love

I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Love

In the midst of pain and urgent trouble we can not realize the supreme happiness of being loved — sweetest and deepest of all meditations…. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

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Love

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters? – James A. Baldwin

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Love

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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary. – Uta Hagen

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Anniversary

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places. – Charles de Lint

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Friendship

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it. – Minna Antrim

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Religion

All is connected… no one thing can change by itself. – Paul Hawken

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Change