Memories of the Ford Administration Quotes

“Though old himself, he disliked old men.”
― John Updike, Memories of the Ford Administration

“Still, my fascination with Buchanan did not abate, nor was I able, as the Seventies set in, to move the novel forward through the constant pastiche and basic fakery of any fiction not fed by the springs of memory -- what Henry James calls (in a letter to Sarah Orne Jewett) the "fatal cheapness [and] mere escamotage" of the "'historic' novel.”
― John Updike, Memories of the Ford Administration

“A jelen a paradicsom, ám az agyunk nem engedi, hogy sokáig éljünk benne.”
― John Updike, Memoirs Of The Ford Administration

“The army was kept in as good state of fitness as the funds would allow.”
― John Updike, Memories of the Ford Administration

“Our army was still out of reach on the remote frontiers, and could not be withdrawn, during midwinter, in time for this military operation. Indeed, the General had never suggested such a withdrawal. He knew that had this been possible, the inhabitants on our distant frontiers would have been immediately exposed to the tomahawk and scalping knife of the Indians.”
― John Updike, Memories of the Ford Administration