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Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me I don't know how they do 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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If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.
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There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.
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Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.
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In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola they promoted thirst without quenching it.
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