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The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our essential selves.
John Updike
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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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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Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.
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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
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History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.
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All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.
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Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
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The throat: how strange, that there is not more erotic emphasis upon it. For here, through this compound pulsing pillar, our life makes its leap into spirit, and in the other direction gulps down what it needs of the material world.
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Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.
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What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
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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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In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.
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