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Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.
John Updike
But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.
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There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.
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How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?
John Updike
It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.
John Updike
When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept - the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.
John Updike
There are some women that don't do it for some men. That's why they turn out so many models.
John Updike
Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.
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There was a beauty here bigger than the hurtling beauty of basketball, a beauty refined from country pastures, a game of solitariness, of waiting, waiting for the pitcher to complete his gaze toward first base and throw his lightning, a game whose very taste, of spit and dust and grass and sweat and leather and sun, was America.
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It is easy to love people in memory the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.
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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.
John Updike
In no other sport must the spectator move.
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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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The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
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Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.
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What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?
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An American in London...cannot but be impressed and charmed by the city. The momumentality of Washington, the thriving business of New York, the antique intimacy of Boston, plus a certain spacious and open feeling reminiscent of Denver and San Francisco-all these he finds combined for his pleasure.
John Updike
The muttered hint, Remember, you have a stroke here, freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.
John Updike
Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.
John Updike
Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.
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