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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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It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.
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We are fated to love one another we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our love has lifted us up , out of the dreadfulness of merely living.
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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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Nothing feels worse than other people's good times.
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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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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
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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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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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Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.
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How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation.
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Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape.
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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?
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I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.
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A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means whereby it was made. We do not trust the artist's flattering hand but we do trust film, and shadows, and light.
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We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.
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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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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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