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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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My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.
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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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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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The great thing about the dead, they make space.
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Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.
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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
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Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.
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Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?
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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
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Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.
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The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
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Why does one never hear of government funding for the preservation and encouragement of comic strips, girlie magazines and TV soap operas? Because these genres still hold the audience they were created to amuse and instruct.
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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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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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American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.
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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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I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify what they felt to be was my inflated reputation and so that the book in hand was not really given a chance but made a kind of weapon in the general attempt to bring me down to size.
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There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.
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Do what the heart commands. The heart is our only guide.
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Dream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of cobweb, and awaken not with any sense of unjust hazard but only with a regret that the round can never be completed, and that one of our phantasmal companions has kept the scorecard.
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