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The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
John Updike
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song.
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I never made a decision in my life that wasn't one hundred per cent selfish.
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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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It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.
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