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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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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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Man makes one journey all his living days, Down through the realms of music and of art Down through the halls of fame and glorious praise Down through the tears and triumphs of the heart To some sweet woman waiting some place there. For her he builds his cities and makes war, Seeks gold and glorious wealth to store.
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Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song.
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Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.
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How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?
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I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.
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The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had our boyhood is what any boy in our environment would have had.
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Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me I don't know how they do it.
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An American in London...cannot but be impressed and charmed by the city. The momumentality of Washington, the thriving business of New York, the antique intimacy of Boston, plus a certain spacious and open feeling reminiscent of Denver and San Francisco-all these he finds combined for his pleasure.
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It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.
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Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.
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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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Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear.
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Adversity in immunological doses has its uses more than that crushes.
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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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We are each of us like our little blue planet, hung in black space, upheld by nothing but our mutual reassurances, our loving lies.
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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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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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Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.
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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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