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The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.
John Updike
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.
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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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Art imitates Nature in this not to dare is to dwindle.
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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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Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.
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Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.
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I never made a decision in my life that wasn't one hundred per cent selfish.
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History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.
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The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.
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For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do - they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.
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All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.
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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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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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Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.
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Adversity in immunological doses has its uses more than that crushes.
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There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.
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