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Human was the music, natural was the static.
John Updike
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.
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A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.
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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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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.
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Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
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Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.
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Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.
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