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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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I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify what they felt to be was my inflated reputation and so that the book in hand was not really given a chance but made a kind of weapon in the general attempt to bring me down to size.
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We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.
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But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.
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The muttered hint, Remember, you have a stroke here, freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.
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The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is private study, thought, and passion. Publicity is a essential to the one as privacy is to the other.
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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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Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.
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Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.
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Affairs, ... , like everything else, ask too much.
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Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.
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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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We are cruel enough without meaning to be.
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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
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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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Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.
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Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.
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The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.
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I'm not against TV I don't go on the morning talk shows because I'm not invited. If I was, I might go.
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