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Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.
John Updike
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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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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Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.
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The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.
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Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.
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If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.
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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.
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Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have been somerwhere together where non-golfers never go.
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President George] Bush talked to us like we were a bunch of morons and we ate it up. Can you imagine, the Pledge of Allegiance, read my lips-can you imagine such crap in this day and age?
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Do what the heart commands. The heart is our only guide.
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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
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You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.
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The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.
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Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
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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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Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop the gut expanded to take in more and more.
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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.
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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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Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.
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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
John Updike
Our lives fade behind us before we die.
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