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John Hoyer Updike byl americký spisovatel a držitel Pulitzerovy ceny.

✵ 18. březen 1932 – 27. leden 2009  •  Další jména John Hoyer Updike, Con Apdayk
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„Tělo každého z nás jsou hodiny, jimiž ubývá čas. Ač mlád, slyším odtikávat proteinové kyseliny… Čím starší jsme a čím méně jiter nám zbývá, tím hlouběji nás bodne a probudí dýka svítání.“

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„Jen učebnice a nebe jsou dokonalé.“

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„Dávat a neztrácet, stvořit něco a nezničit přitom nic jiného - zůstává radostným jádrem lásky.“

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„Je to zvláštní: to, co člověka někam žene, je tak jednoduché, a na území, kde se musí pohybovat, není pak k hnutí.“

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John Updike citáty a výroky

„Přežíváme každou chvíli, konec konců, s výjimkou posledního.“

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„Jeden zdravý nuditel spotřebuje ročně jedenapůlnásobek své váhy ve formě trpělivosti svých bližních.“

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„Lehčí je být sám sebou než prorokem. S tou, samozřejmě, podmínkou, že nebereš sebe příliš vážně.“

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„Jsme příliš staří na to, aby jsme byli hloupí.“

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„Ženy: nikdy nevíte, na které straně chtějí tančit.“

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John Updike: Citáty anglicky

“The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.”

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John Updike kniha Rabbit Is Rich

Zdroj: Rabbit Is Rich

“The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.”

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“Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth’s many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum.”

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Zdroj: Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989), Ch. 6; Gratia Dei sum quod sum translates to ”Thanks be to God that I am what I am”

“That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.”

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John Updike kniha Rabbit Redux

Zdroj: Rabbit Redux

“Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.”

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Accepting Edward MacDowell Medal, New York Times (26 August 1981)

“Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.”

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“But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.”

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Zdroj: A&P: Lust in the Aisles

“So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.”

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“A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.”

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"They Thought They Were Better" in TIME magazine (21 July 1980) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,924295,00.html

“Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.”

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“What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?”

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John Updike kniha Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories

Zdroj: Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories

“There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.”

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John Updike kniha Rabbit, Run

Zdroj: Rabbit, Run

“But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.”

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John Updike kniha Rabbit, Run

Zdroj: Rabbit, Run

“It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks latenesses, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patchings to repair great rents in the quotidian.”

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John Updike kniha Couples

Zdroj: Couples (1968), Ch. 2

“We are cruel enough without meaning to be.”

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John Updike kniha Rabbit Is Rich

Zdroj: Rabbit Is Rich

“Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?”

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Zdroj: Self-Consciousness

“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. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.”

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John Updike kniha The Centaur

Zdroj: The Centaur (1963), Ch. 4

“If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.”

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Zdroj: A&P: Lust in the Aisles

“Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.”

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“… hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.”

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John Updike kniha Rabbit, Run

Zdroj: Rabbit, Run

“Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.”

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“We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything”

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John Updike kniha Rabbit Redux

Zdroj: Rabbit Redux

“[At news that Nelson got himself a counsellor] Harry feels a jealous, resentful pang. His boy is being taken over. His fatherhood hasn't been good enough. They're calling in the professionals.”

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John Updike kniha Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“He had gone to church and brought back this little flame and had nowhere to put it on the dark damp walls of the apartment, so it had flickered and gone out. And he realised that he wouldn't always be able to produce this flame.”

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John Updike kniha Rabbit, Run

Rabbit, Run (1960)

“In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which is different but not basically different, perhaps, from our own. For women, too, there seems to be that tangle of supplication and possessiveness, that descent toward infantile undifferentiation, that omnipotent helplessness, that merger with the cosmic mother-warmth, that flushed pulse- quickened leap into overestimation, projection, general mix-up.”

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“The Female Body,” Michigan Quarterly Review (1990)

“For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do — they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.”

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“The Female Body,” Michigan Quarterly Review (1990)

“[Nelson, about Pru] She had complained for years about living with his mother and Ronnie and about his dead-end job babysitting these pathetic dysfunctionals, boosting his own ego at their expense, caring more about them than he did about his own wife and children, but what it boiled down to in his baffled mind was something she once shouted, her green eyes bright as broken glass in her reddened face: My life with you is too small. Too small. As if being a greaseball lawyer's input organiser and easy lay was bigger. But the size of a life is how you feel about it.”

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John Updike kniha Rabbit Remembered

Rabbit Remembered (2000)

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