Frasi di John Updike
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John Hoyer Updike è stato uno scrittore e poeta statunitense.

✵ 18. Marzo 1932 – 27. Gennaio 2009 • Altri nomi John Hoyer Updike, Con Apdayk

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“Le classi degli speranzosi, dei delusi, dei docili… tutti gli uomini sono ragazzi che il tempo cerca di fregare.”

“Se dici abbastanza spesso a qualcuno che è simpatico, finisce col diventarlo davvero.”

Origine: Sposami, p. 27

“Il sesso è come il denaro: solamente quando è troppo è abbastanza.”

Origine: Da Couples, Knopf, New York.

“A me piace l'insonnia. È una prova che sono vivo.”

Origine: Sposami, p. 35

“È più difficile essere un marito che un amante.”

Origine: Sposami, p. 126

“Le amanti mordono. Le mogli no.”

Origine: Sposami, p. 92

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“Le amanti vanno bene nei romanzi europei. Da noi, non c'è altra istituzione che il matrimonio. Il matrimonio e la partita di pallacanestro del mercoledì.”

Origine: Sposami, p. 58

“Era una ragazza giovane, ma con quell'espressione indolente di sazietà e di malcontento che hanno sempre le ragazze italiane per essere rimaste strette troppo a lungo al seno di una madre piangente.”

Origine: Sposami, p. 64

“Ogni cosa sotto il cielo finisce, e se si ritiene che la temporalità ne infici il valore, allora nulla che sia reale ottiene mai il successo.”

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“Era vero per la mia generazione, che i film erano terribilmente vividi e istruttivi.”

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“Mim ha riattaccato. Ha una vita da affrontare.”

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“Il tempo è il nostro elemento, non un invasore errato.”

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“Ma per alcune frasi delle sue lettere e una strana linea o due dei suoi versi, il poeta cammina imbavagliato attraverso la sua biografia.”

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“Chiunque ti dica come comportarsi ha il whisky nel respiro.”

John Updike: Frasi in inglese

“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 libro 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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John Updike libro Rabbit Remembered

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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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

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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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

"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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John Updike libro Rabbit Remembered

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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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

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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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

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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Origine: 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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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

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

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