John Updike Quotes About Ghosts

Quotes about: Ghosts

• The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old, The birds are flown.

  John Updike

  Fall, Autumn, Grieving

  John Updike, Nancy Ekholm Burkert (1989). “A Child's Calendar”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on those green hills. The worship of Mammon is also somewhat lessened there by the spirit of irony. I don't get hay fever in New England either.

  John Updike

  Real, Past, Hay Fever

  London Observer, March 25, 1979.

• Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them.

  John Updike

  Men, Light, Overcoming

  John Updike (1990). “Rabbit Angstrom: a tetralogy”, Everyman's Library

• Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.

  John Updike

  Country, Law, Smell

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit, Run”, p.25, Random House

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