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Adversity in immunological doses has its uses more than that crushes.
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 fact that we still live well cannot ease the feeling that we no longer live nobly.
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Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and sour-faced reporters that crowd around the dugouts can quite smother the exhilarating spaciousness and grace of this impudently relaxed sport, a game of innumerable potential redemptions and curious disappointments.
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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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We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.
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Within your own generation-the same songs, the same wars, the same attitudes toward those wars, the same rules and radio shows in the air-you can gauge the possibilities and impossibilities. With a person of another generation, you are treading water, playing with fire.
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Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me I don't know how they do it.
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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end.
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I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.
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Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.
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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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As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.
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Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.
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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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It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.
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