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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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John Hoyer Updike
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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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It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.
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Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop the gut expanded to take in more and more.
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Do what the heart commands. The heart is our only guide.
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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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Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.
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Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.
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