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

“When you're retired, you get into your routines and other people, even so-called loved ones, become a strain.”

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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“[re the human heart] That little electric twitch: without it we're so much rotting meat.”

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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore, for instance, and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.”

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“Confessions of a Wild Bore” in Assorted Prose (1965)

“[Re Florida] Just not being senile is considered great down here.”

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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“"Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
"Who says?"
"I say; everybody says!"
"Why would we have a Depression?"
"Because we don't have any discipline! We're drowning in debt! We don't even own our own country any more!"”

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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

[Harry, to Nelson]
Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“…he tries to view his life as a brick of sorts, set in place with a slap in 1933 and hardening ever since, just one life in rows and walls and blocks of lives.”

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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“Weeds don't know they're weeds.”

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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“He’s not that young, he’s turned twenty-three, and what makes him feel foolish among these people, he’s married. Nobody else here looks married. There is sure nobody else pregnant, that it shows. It makes him feel put on display, as a guy who didn’t know better.”

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Rabbit is Rich (1981)

“[Pru, to Harry] She tells him, "You were one of the things I liked about Nelson. Maybe I thought Nelson would grow into somebody like you."
"Maybe he did. You don't get to see what a bastard I can be."”

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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.”

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

“[re a woman on TV on 'Wheel of Fortune'] She makes you proud to be a two-legged mammal.”

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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“[Mim, to Nelson, about Annabelle, aged 39] "This little nursie's not your problem. At thirty-nine, everybody's their own problem…"”

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John Updike libro Rabbit Remembered

Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“[Re Annabelle] …she is an old maid already. But the bright-eyed flounce with which she sits down and slides her way to the center of the table in the booth suggests that she is still hopeful, still a player in whatever the game is.”

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John Updike libro Rabbit Remembered

Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“[Mim to Nelson] "Your father wasn't stupid, he just acted stupid."”

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John Updike libro Rabbit Remembered

Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.”

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John Updike libro Couples

Origine: Couples (1968), Ch. 5

“I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.”

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Testimony given before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor, Boston, Massachusetts (30 January 1978)

“As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world…”

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John Updike libro Rabbit, Run

Rabbit, Run (1960)

“…he feels a stifling uselessness in things, a kind of atomic decay whereby the precious glowing present turns, with each tick of the clock, into the leaden slag of history.”

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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“[Harry, to Thelma, about Janet] "She never really figured out how the world is put together but she's still working at it."”

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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“[Nelson, about Harry] "I saw him, eventually," Nelson says, "as a loser, who never found his niche and floated along on Mom's money, which was money her father made. […] But being a loser wasn't the way my father saw himself. He saw himself as a winner, and until I was twelve or so I saw him the same way."”

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John Updike libro Rabbit Remembered

Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“The artistic triumph of American Jewry lay, he thought, not in the novels of the 1950s but in the movies of the 1930s, those gargantuan, crass contraptions whereby Jewish brains projected Gentile stars upon a Gentile nation and out of their own immigrant joy gave a formless land dreams and even a kind of conscience.”

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Bech, A Book (1970)

“Who wants to fish, if you're halfway civilised? Dangling some dead meat in front of some poor brainless thing and then pulling him up by a hook in the roof of his mouth? Cruellest thing people do is fish.”

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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“Once when Harry asked Ed why they didn't go back to Toledo, Ed looked at him with that smartass squint and asked, "You ever been to Toledo?"”

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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.”

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“The Bankrupt Man,” Hugging the Shore

“…they were nobodies in the county, they would leave nothing behind but their headstones.”

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John Updike libro Rabbit Remembered

Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“These dysfunctionals make him aware of how functional he is.”

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John Updike libro Rabbit Remembered

Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“Women are actresses, tuning their part to each little audience.”

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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“What held him back all day was the feeling that somewhere there was something better for him than listening to babies cry and cheating people in used-car lots and it's this feeling he tries to kill, right there on the bus; he grips the chrome bar and leans far over two women with white pleated blouses and laps of packages and closes his eyes and tries to kill it.”

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John Updike libro Rabbit, Run

Rabbit, Run (1960)

“Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.”

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“Marching through a Novel” in Tossing and Turning (1977)

“It was one of history’s great love stories, the mutually profitable romance which Hollywood and bohunk America conducted almost in the dark, a tapping of fervent messages through the wall of the San Gabriel Range.”

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Bech, A Book (1970)

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