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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.
John Updike
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.
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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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Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.
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Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
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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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Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
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What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand.
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When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept - the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.
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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
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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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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 creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.
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The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
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Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.
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In no other sport must the spectator move.
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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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The throat: how strange, that there is not more erotic emphasis upon it. For here, through this compound pulsing pillar, our life makes its leap into spirit, and in the other direction gulps down what it needs of the material world.
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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
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Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.
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Fraud makes the world go round.
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