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John Updike
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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John Hoyer Updike
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The other sad truth about golf spectatorship is that for today's pros it all comes down to the putting, and that the difference between a putt that drops and one that rims the cup, though teleologically enormous, is intellectually negligeable.
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I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.
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Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.
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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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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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Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle.
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There are some women that don't do it for some men. That's why they turn out so many models.
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To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.
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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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I'm not against TV I don't go on the morning talk shows because I'm not invited. If I was, I might go.
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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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Journalism has not only its social stimulations but its aesthetic virtues. An invitation into print, from however suspect a source, is an opportunity to make something beautiful, to discover within oneself a treasure that would otherwise have remained buried.
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All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.
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In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola they promoted thirst without quenching it.
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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end.
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There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.
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Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them.
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In no other sport must the spectator move.
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Human was the music, natural was the static.
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We are cruel enough without meaning to be.
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