Quotes by John Updike with sex

John Updike

John Updike

American writer and criticus

Lived from: 1932 - 2009

Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 18 march 1932 Died: 27 january 2009

  • Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
  • Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
  • To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.

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  • 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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  • Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
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  • To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.
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  • What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?
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