John Updike Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009
Birthday: March 18
Death: January 27
Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
source: John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.216, Random House
topic: New York, Book, Cutting, Second Guessing, Holier Than Thou
