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Being naked approaches being revolutionary going barefoot is mere populism.
John Updike
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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An American in London...cannot but be impressed and charmed by the city. The momumentality of Washington, the thriving business of New York, the antique intimacy of Boston, plus a certain spacious and open feeling reminiscent of Denver and San Francisco-all these he finds combined for his pleasure.
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Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.
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The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
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What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?
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You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.
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If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.
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There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.
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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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I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.
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Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.
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Basically it's true that my own life has been my chief window for life in America, beginning with my childhood and the conflicts, the struggles, the strains that I felt in my own family.
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Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback.
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The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our essential selves.
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It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.
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Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
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