What did John Updike mean by: Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull. - John Updike Writer Copy
+ The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Updike, Religion, Stories, 0 - John Updike Writer
+ Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you’re still in it. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Updike, Country, Russia, 0 - John Updike Writer
+ Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape. Feraz Zeid, August 28, 2023December 24, 2023, John Updike, Hot, Water, 0 - John Updike Writer
+ irony is a way of having one’s cake while appearing to eat it. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Updike, Cake, Irony, 0 - John Updike Writer
+ We are most alive when we’re in love. Feraz Zeid, August 27, 2023December 24, 2023, John Updike, Alive, Love, Marriage, 0 - John Updike Writer
+ Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Updike, Aristocracy, Marriage, Teacher, 0 - John Updike Writer
+ Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Updike, Buckets, Water, 0 - John Updike Writer
+ Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle. Feraz Zeid, September 17, 2023December 24, 2023, John Updike, Art, Artist, Nature, 0 - John Updike Writer
Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you’ll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. - Frida Kahlo Painter · Mexico
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
