Rabbit Angstrom Quotes

#1. We are cruel enough without meaning to be.

John Updike

#2. The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.

H.L. Mencken

#3. Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.

Michael Servetus

#4. Structure is, for me, the most fun challenge about writing novels.

Heidi Julavits

#5. You don't love me as much as you think you do

ALlisyn Terry

#6. It was a strange thing, this feeling of empathy. He'd never experienced it before. He realized that what hurt this woman hurt him as well, that what made her bleed caused a hemorrhage of pain within his soul.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#7. He doesn't blame people for many sins, but he does hate uncoordination, the root of all evil, as he feels it, for without coordination there can be no order, no connecting.

John Updike

#8. It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.

Paul Davies

#9. The fucking world is running out of gas.

John Updike

#10. So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.

Michael Stipe

#11. In a way, gluttony is an athletic feat, a stretching exercise.

John Updike

#12. Tall as he is, there is no carrying the slope under his shirt as anything other than a loose gut, a paunch that in itself must weigh as much as a starving Ethiopian child.

John Updike

#13. He sounds to himself, saying this, like an impersonator; life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.

John Updike

#14. He settles back with a small handful of cashews; dry-roasted, they have a little acid sting to them, the tang of poison that he likes.

John Updike

#15. A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

Arthur Wing Pinero

#16. I know what I'm doing. And I even know when I don't know what I'm doing. Then there are people who don't want to know that you know what you're doing.

Juliette Lewis

#17. I don't think about politics," Rabbit says. "That's one of my Goddam precious American rights, not to think about politics.

John Updike

#18. I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.

Gemma Files

#19. Women must begin to "save" themselves and their daughters before they "save" their husbands and their sons; before they "save" the whole world.

Phyllis Chesler

#20. The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.

John Updike