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Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape.
John Updike
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance perversity is the souls very life.
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From infancy on, we are all spies the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
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Why does one never hear of government funding for the preservation and encouragement of comic strips, girlie magazines and TV soap operas? Because these genres still hold the audience they were created to amuse and instruct.
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