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In no other sport must the spectator move.
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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Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.
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There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
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