[Mim, to Nelson, about Annabelle, aged 39] "This little nur… - John Updike

" "
[Mim, to Nelson, about Annabelle, aged 39] "This little nursie's not your problem. At thirty-nine, everybody's their own problem..."

John Updike

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About John Updike

John Hoyer Updike (18 March 1932 – 27 January 2009) was an American novelist, poet, critic and short-story writer.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Alternative Names: John Hoyer Updike

All quotes from John Updike Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like John Updike:

Margaret Atwood John Steinbeck Martin Amis J. M. Coetzee E. M. Forster

Additional quotes by John Updike

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

Who would have thought that the Internet, that's supposed to knit the world into a shining tyranny-proof ball, would be so grubbily adolescent?

[Mim, to Nelson, about Annabelle, aged 39] "This little nursie's not your problem. At thirty-nine, everybody's their own problem..." - John Updike

About John Updike

Also Known As

Go Premium

Additional quotes by John Updike

Try QuoteGPT