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Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
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'm not against TV I don't go on the morning talk shows because I'm not invited. If I was, I might go.
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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.
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The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is private study, thought, and passion. Publicity is a essential to the one as privacy is to the other.
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A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means whereby it was made. We do not trust the artist's flattering hand but we do trust film, and shadows, and light.
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It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.
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Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.
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Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.
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Adversity in immunological doses has its uses more than that crushes.
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The other sad truth about golf spectatorship is that for today's pros it all comes down to the putting, and that the difference between a putt that drops and one that rims the cup, though teleologically enormous, is intellectually negligeable.
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
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Man makes one journey all his living days, Down through the realms of music and of art Down through the halls of fame and glorious praise Down through the tears and triumphs of the heart To some sweet woman waiting some place there. For her he builds his cities and makes war, Seeks gold and glorious wealth to store.
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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 heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance perversity is the souls very life.
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If you look at the best-seller list, it is mostly thrillers. Very few books attempt to create an image of the life we live. I knew there were writers who wore tweed coats and lived in Connecticut and somehow made a living, and that's what I aimed to do. I've tried to write as well as I can with books that say something to any reader.
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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
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Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.
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irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.
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How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation.
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Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them.
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