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John Updike nejznámější citáty

„Sny se plní. Bez této skutečnosti by nás k nim příroda nepodněcovala.“

„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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„Chlapi se neradi rozhodují, jsou nejradši, když to za ně udělá ženská nebo pánbůh.“

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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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„To, co zmizelo z života, zmizelo nenávratně. Je marné po tom pátrat, nelze to přivolat zpět.“

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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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„Zavře oči a beze slova přemýšlí o veškerém utrpení, které sex způsobil světu…“

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John Updike: Citáty anglicky

“Tell me, Nelson, I'm just curious. How does it feel to have smoked up your parents' house in crack?”

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John Updike kniha Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“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.”

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Too Far To Go, foreword (1979)

“[Nelson, to Annabelle] "The misery of the world," he says, reaching into himself to overcome her resistance. "That's what I kept thinking during my group this morning – the pity of everything, all of us, these confused souls trying so pathetically hard to break out of the fog – to see through our compulsions, our needs as they chew us up…"”

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Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“Writers take words seriously — perhaps the last professional class that does — and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader.”

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Writers on Themselves (1986)

“…a sense of defeat the years have brought back to him, after what seemed for a while to be triumphs.”

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Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“Late in the game as it is, you keep trying.”

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Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“…This is a hideous thing. None of us will ever be the same.”

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"We never are," he dares to say.
Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“You don't know what you don't know.”

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Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“[Nelson, re. Annabelle] …"she wants what everybody wants. She wants love."”

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Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“[Nelson] "…One nice thing about Florida, it makes Pennsylvania look unspoiled."”

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Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“[Harry having drawn at golf] The shape of his collapse clings to him. Who says the universe isn't soaked in disgrace?”

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Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“He learned this much selling cars: offer the customer something he doesn't want, to make what he half-wants look better.”

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Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“The papers exaggerate. They exaggerate everything, just to sell papers. The government exaggerates, to keep our minds off what morons they are.”

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Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“[Thelma] "…We're too old to keep being foolish."”

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Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“The past is the past," Harry goes on, "you got to live in the present. … It's the only way to think. When you're my age, you'll see it. At my age if you carried all the misery you've seen on your back you'd never get up in the morning.”

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Rabbit is Rich (1981)

“[Janice] Looking back from this distance, she can't think any more that Harry was all to blame for their early troubles, he had just been trying life on too: life and sex and making babies and finding out who you are.”

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Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.”

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“How to Love America and Leave it at the Same Time,” Problems and Other Stories (1979)

“… Cocaine. The stuff is everywhere.”

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Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“[coming away from the doctor's after a check-up] Get interested is the advice, but in truth you are interested in less and less. It's Nature's way.”

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Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“[Ronnie to Nelson] "For a guy who snorted an entire car agency up his nose, you're one to talk about con games."”

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Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.”

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“A Foreword for Younger Readers,” Assorted Prose (1965)

“Charlie asks her for a Perrier with lime. She says that San Pellegrino is what they have. He says it's all the same to him. Fancy water is fancy water.”

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Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.”

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The New Yorker (November 1992)

“Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.”

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Zdroj: Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989), Ch. 6

“At last, small witches, goblins, hags,
And pirates armed with paper bags,
Their costumes hinged on safety pins,
Go haunt a night of pumpkin grins.”

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October, A Child's Calendar (1965)

“Women: you never know which side they want to dance on.”

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Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“Hard to believe God is always listening, never gets bored.”

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Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“[Nelson] "… I get none of the things a man's supposed to get from a wife."
"What are those?" Janice is truly interested; she has never heard a man spell it out.
He makes a cross evasive face. "You know – don't play naïve. Reassurance. Affection. Make the guy think he's great even if he isn't."”

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Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“When she was a girl nobody had money but people had dreams.”

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Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“You can't say anything honest to women, they have minds like the FBI.”

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Rabbit at Rest (1990)

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