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President George] Bush talked to us like we were a bunch of morons and we ate it up. Can you imagine, the Pledge of Allegiance, read my lips-can you imagine such crap in this day and age?
John Updike
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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Within your own generation-the same songs, the same wars, the same attitudes toward those wars, the same rules and radio shows in the air-you can gauge the possibilities and impossibilities. With a person of another generation, you are treading water, playing with fire.
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A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.
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You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.
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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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If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.
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If you look at the best-seller list, it is mostly thrillers. Very few books attempt to create an image of the life we live. I knew there were writers who wore tweed coats and lived in Connecticut and somehow made a living, and that's what I aimed to do. I've tried to write as well as I can with books that say something to any reader.
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It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.
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Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.
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Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
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My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.
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The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.
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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.
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All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.
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Art imitates Nature in this not to dare is to dwindle.
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Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.
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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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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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There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.
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The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.
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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
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