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Mozart's music gives us permission to live.
John Updike
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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I never made a decision in my life that wasn't one hundred per cent selfish.
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The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth, of culmination its bliss lasts as much as five minutes, until the first typographical error or production flaw is noticed.
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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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A cynic is a kind of romantic who has aged.
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To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.
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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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I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good and bad nature. It is all in where you stand at the time.
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The first breathe of adultery is the freest.
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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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You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that I wasn't an orator, unlike my mother and my grandfather, who both spoke beautifully and spoke all the time. Maybe I grew up with too many voices around me, as a matter of fact.
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