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We are cruel enough without meaning to be.
John Updike
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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John Hoyer Updike
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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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The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth, of culmination its bliss lasts as much as five minutes, until the first typographical error or production flaw is noticed.
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The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.
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Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.
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The first breathe of adultery is the freest.
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Yes, there is a ton of information on the web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile.
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We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.
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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
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In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.
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Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.
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One does not go to Moscow to get fat.
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My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.
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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.
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Dream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of cobweb, and awaken not with any sense of unjust hazard but only with a regret that the round can never be completed, and that one of our phantasmal companions has kept the scorecard.
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You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that I wasn't an orator, unlike my mother and my grandfather, who both spoke beautifully and spoke all the time. Maybe I grew up with too many voices around me, as a matter of fact.
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Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.
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A cynic is a kind of romantic who has aged.
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What we need is progress with an escape hatch.
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