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Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song.
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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From infancy on, we are all spies the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
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How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation.
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A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means whereby it was made. We do not trust the artist's flattering hand but we do trust film, and shadows, and light.
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If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.
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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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Adversity in immunological doses has its uses more than that crushes.
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The scrape and snap of Keds on loose alley pebbles seems to catapult their voices high into the moist March air blue above the wires.
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Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.
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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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We are fated to love one another we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our love has lifted us up , out of the dreadfulness of merely living.
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The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.
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Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
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Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.
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In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.
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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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Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.
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Affairs, ... , like everything else, ask too much.
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Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.
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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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Dream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of cobweb, and awaken not with any sense of unjust hazard but only with a regret that the round can never be completed, and that one of our phantasmal companions has kept the scorecard.
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