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Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
John Updike
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.
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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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Adversity in immunological doses has its uses more than that crushes.
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Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.
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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end.
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We are each of us like our little blue planet, hung in black space, upheld by nothing but our mutual reassurances, our loving lies.
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The muttered hint, Remember, you have a stroke here, freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.
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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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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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Do what the heart commands. The heart is our only guide.
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The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance perversity is the souls very life.
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Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
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There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.
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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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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
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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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You imagine a reader and try to keep the reader interested. That's storytelling. You also hope to reward the reader with a sense of a completed design, that somebody is in charge, and that while life is pointless, the book isn't pointless. The author knows where he is going. That's form.
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One of the nice things about having a lover, it makes you think about everything anew. The rest of your life becomes a kind of movie, flat and even rather funny.
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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
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Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.
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