Due Considerations Quotes

“the books of the 1920s and ’30s that are most inviting, with their handy size, generous margins, and sharp letterpress type.”
― John Updike, Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism

“We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!”
― John Updike, Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism

“Television was soon to eclipse print's inky cloud with its magnetic flare of electrons, pulling millions from their reading chairs to the viewing couch.”
― John Updike, Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism