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Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
John Updike
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and sour-faced reporters that crowd around the dugouts can quite smother the exhilarating spaciousness and grace of this impudently relaxed sport, a game of innumerable potential redemptions and curious disappointments.
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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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Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.
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Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
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Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.
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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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All those little congruences and arabesques you prepared with such delicate anticipatory pleasure are gobbled up as if by pigs at a pastry cart.
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Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.
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How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?
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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.
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The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance perversity is the souls very life.
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Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.
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Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.
John Updike
You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.
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When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept - the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.
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Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.
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When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
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Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.
John Updike
Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have been somerwhere together where non-golfers never go.
John Updike
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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