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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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Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.
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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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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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The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth, of culmination its bliss lasts as much as five minutes, until the first typographical error or production flaw is noticed.
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The educational aspect of art shows has become overbearing: some of exhibits can leave you bleary from trying to read the walls. Presumably a piece of art is timeless and it can say something to us. You are taking away the right of art to talk for itself.
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The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
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The first breathe of adultery is the freest.
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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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Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song.
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Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.
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What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand.
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Our lives fade behind us before we die.
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The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes.
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In no other sport must the spectator move.
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You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.
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There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.
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