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School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.
John Updike
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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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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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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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end.
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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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The muttered hint, Remember, you have a stroke here, freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.
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Fraud makes the world go round.
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Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.
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There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.
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Nothing feels worse than other people's good times.
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Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
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It is easy to love people in memory the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.
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