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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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American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.
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A cynic is a kind of romantic who has aged.
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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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There was a beauty here bigger than the hurtling beauty of basketball, a beauty refined from country pastures, a game of solitariness, of waiting, waiting for the pitcher to complete his gaze toward first base and throw his lightning, a game whose very taste, of spit and dust and grass and sweat and leather and sun, was America.
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You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.
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The great thing about the dead, they make space.
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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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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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In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.
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Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.
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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 no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.
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Human was the music, natural was the static.
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President George] Bush talked to us like we were a bunch of morons and we ate it up. Can you imagine, the Pledge of Allegiance, read my lips-can you imagine such crap in this day and age?
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Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works.
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What we need is progress with an escape hatch.
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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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Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop the gut expanded to take in more and more.
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You have a life and there are these volumes on either side that go unvisited some day soon as the world winds he will lie beneath what he now stands on, dead as those insects whose sound he no longer hears, and the grass will go on growing, wild and blind.
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A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.
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