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What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
John Updike
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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John Hoyer Updike
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The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and such. The bee, his hive, Well-honeyed hum, And Mother cuts Chrysanthemums. Like plates washed clean With suds, the days Are polished with A morning haze.
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Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many people it's the height of, what they see, of ecstasy and poetry is in their sexual encounters. And furthermore, personality - human personality does not end in the bedroom, but persists.
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Our lives fade behind us before we die.
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But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.
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To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.
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President George] Bush talked to us like we were a bunch of morons and we ate it up. Can you imagine, the Pledge of Allegiance, read my lips-can you imagine such crap in this day and age?
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We are cruel enough without meaning to be.
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There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.
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Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.
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There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.
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Fraud makes the world go round.
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Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop the gut expanded to take in more and more.
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The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had our boyhood is what any boy in our environment would have had.
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Why does one never hear of government funding for the preservation and encouragement of comic strips, girlie magazines and TV soap operas? Because these genres still hold the audience they were created to amuse and instruct.
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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
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Yes, there is a ton of information on the web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile.
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You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.
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In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.
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Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.
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Cities aren't like people they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.
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