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Affairs, ... , like everything else, ask too much.
John Updike
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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One of the nice things about having a lover, it makes you think about everything anew. The rest of your life becomes a kind of movie, flat and even rather funny.
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How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?
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The first breathe of adultery is the freest.
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Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.
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The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old, The birds are flown.
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One does not go to Moscow to get fat.
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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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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.
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Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song.
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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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I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify what they felt to be was my inflated reputation and so that the book in hand was not really given a chance but made a kind of weapon in the general attempt to bring me down to size.
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When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept - the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.
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There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight.
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New York is of course many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.
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There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.
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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 difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
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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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In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.
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Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.
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