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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.
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What seems to sell books is good word-of-mouth, not promotion tours. I'm too old to believe that media promotion of a book really matters. What matters is how it will look 100 years from now, not how many copies are sold.
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Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.
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Life, too much of it, and not enough. The fear that it will end some day, and the fear that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.
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It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.
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There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.
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Nothing seems to matter quite as much. I no longer think about death in the concentrated way I once did. I don't know? you get so old and you sort of give up in some way. You've had your period of angst, your period of religious desperation, and you've arrived at a philosophical position where you don't need, or you can't bear, to look at it.
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I'm somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don't like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburger and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.
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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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It is easy to love people in memory the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.
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There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.
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We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.
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irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.
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Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless we do not imagine, we view.
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If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead.
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How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?
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Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song.
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Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.
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Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape.
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How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation.
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