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Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.
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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Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.
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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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I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit of those medieval carvers who so fondly sculpted the undersides of choir seats.
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Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.
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Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?
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Mozart's music gives us permission to live.
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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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Our tears fatten upon our memories of joy.
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Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.
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