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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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John Hoyer Updike
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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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We are cruel enough without meaning to be.
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The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is private study, thought, and passion. Publicity is a essential to the one as privacy is to the other.
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Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.
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Art imitates Nature in this not to dare is to dwindle.
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Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.
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