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Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.
John Updike
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
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Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.
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What we need is progress with an escape hatch.
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The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.
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Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?
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Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song.
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Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear.
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Art imitates Nature in this not to dare is to dwindle.
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Being naked approaches being revolutionary going barefoot is mere populism.
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But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.
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Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.
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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
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Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.
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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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But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.
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