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John Updike
Puzzles
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of ___ wisdom has passed from currency.
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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek ___.
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Quotes
Which one of these four quotes is attributed to John Updike?
→ Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
→ Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides.
→ The wind whispered secrets in its own incomprehensible language.
→ Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being.
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Pick the quote attributed to John Updike.
→ Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
→ A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.
→ Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
→ Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
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Select the quotation attributed to John Updike.
→ Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
→ Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
→ You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
→ A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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One of these may be attributed to John Updike. Which one?
→ Change your thoughts and you change your world.
→ The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
→ We are most alive when we're in love.
→ America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
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Which one of these belongs to John Updike?
→ I hate victims who respect their executioners.
→ One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
→ Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
→ If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterwards.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to John Updike?
→ When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.
→ Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
→ I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.
→ There is humor that's just whimsy, that we smile at, but the humor that we laugh at, someone has to be - someone's dignity has to be reduced.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to John Updike.
→ When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.
→ I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.
→ We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
→ The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.
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