Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-century house, since most of America lacks seventeenth-century houses.
タグ: america, happy, house, experience

"John Updike"の他の名言

Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
タグ: writing, life, inspirational-quotes
What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.
タグ: think, men, me, women
Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer and weep.
タグ: everything, want, me, myself
Belief, like love, must be voluntary.
タグ: belief, must, like, love
New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.
タグ: like, new, live, you
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