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Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.
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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Dream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of cobweb, and awaken not with any sense of unjust hazard but only with a regret that the round can never be completed, and that one of our phantasmal companions has kept the scorecard.
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All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.
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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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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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Cities aren't like people they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.
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Do what the heart commands. The heart is our only guide.
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There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.
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Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.
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The fact that we still live well cannot ease the feeling that we no longer live nobly.
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Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.
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The first breathe of adultery is the freest.
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Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many people it's the height of, what they see, of ecstasy and poetry is in their sexual encounters. And furthermore, personality - human personality does not end in the bedroom, but persists.
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My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.
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