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In no other sport must the spectator move.

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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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The educational aspect of art shows has become overbearing: some of exhibits can leave you bleary from trying to read the walls. Presumably a piece of art is timeless and it can say something to us. You are taking away the right of art to talk for itself.
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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 stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old, The birds are flown.
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When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
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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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I never made a decision in my life that wasn't one hundred per cent selfish.
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
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Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
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Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens as we get older we are exempted from more and more.
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
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You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.
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Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many people it's the height of, what they see, of ecstasy and poetry is in their sexual encounters. And furthermore, personality - human personality does not end in the bedroom, but persists.
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Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle.
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Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.
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Our tears fatten upon our memories of joy.
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All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.
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Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?
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One of the nice things about having a lover, it makes you think about everything anew. The rest of your life becomes a kind of movie, flat and even rather funny.
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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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Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape.
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