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Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still 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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Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.
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I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.
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The fact that we still live well cannot ease the feeling that we no longer live nobly.
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School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.
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irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.
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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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