Updike/people

Famous quotes containing the words updike and/or people:

“The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)

“If all hearts were open and all desires known—as they would be if people showed their souls—how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)