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Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.
John Updike
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?
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There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.
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We are cruel enough without meaning to be.
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