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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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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
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The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist.
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Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
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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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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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When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
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We are cruel enough without meaning to be.
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If you look at the best-seller list, it is mostly thrillers. Very few books attempt to create an image of the life we live. I knew there were writers who wore tweed coats and lived in Connecticut and somehow made a living, and that's what I aimed to do. I've tried to write as well as I can with books that say something to any reader.
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In no other sport must the spectator move.
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How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?
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The muttered hint, Remember, you have a stroke here, freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.
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I'm somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don't like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburger and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.
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I'm not against TV I don't go on the morning talk shows because I'm not invited. If I was, I might go.
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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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We are each of us like our little blue planet, hung in black space, upheld by nothing but our mutual reassurances, our loving lies.
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Days, pale slices between nights, they blend, not exactly alike, transparencies so lightly tinted that only stacked all together do they darken to a fatal shade.
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There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.
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Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works.
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Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless we do not imagine, we view.
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