We are most alive when we're in love.... -John Updike

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We are most alive when we're in love.

John Updike , Novelist
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John Updike Quotes to Explore

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered....
I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and cartoons, pictures in a book, the animated movi...
Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthe...
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit....
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went....
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five....
The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness....
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner....
We are most alive when we're in love....
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramificatio...

Valentine's Day Quotes to Explore

I love Valentine's Day because it's a fun day to show not only your significant other some love, but also your girlfriends and close family that you'r...
Valentine's Day is a holiday of high emotions, mostly stress. The occasion has the unique ability to make both those who do participate in it and thos...
I have no use for Valentine's Day, with its limited menu and cramped seating....
My birthday is two days before Valentine's Day so it has always been about that rather than romance....
I like Valentine's Day for the kids. You know, they take their valentines to school and I like to see what they come home with....
I do not want to limit my celebration of 'love' to just twenty-four hours in a year. I would like to pamper and be pampered all through the year. And ...
Valentine's Day isn't always as much fun as many of us would like....
Valentine's day has been reduced to a marketing gimmick. Buying diamonds for your beloved has no appeal for me....
Somebody asked me what am I doing on Valentine's Day, and all I had to say was that I'll spend it with my dog, who will love me endlessly....
When I was in the seventh grade, I had a girlfriend. I used to save up some of my pocket money to get her gifts on Valentine's Day....