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The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance perversity is the souls very life.
John Updike
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
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The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.
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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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Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
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Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.
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I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.
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