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Do what the heart commands. The heart is our only guide.
John Updike
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
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Cities aren't like people they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.
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Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
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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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You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that I wasn't an orator, unlike my mother and my grandfather, who both spoke beautifully and spoke all the time. Maybe I grew up with too many voices around me, as a matter of fact.
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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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Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.
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The fact that we still live well cannot ease the feeling that we no longer live nobly.
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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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The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.
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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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Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
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You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.
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The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.
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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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Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop the gut expanded to take in more and more.
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The great thing about the dead, they make space.
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Life, too much of it, and not enough. The fear that it will end some day, and the fear that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.
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The first breathe of adultery is the freest.
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For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do - they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.
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