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One does not go to Moscow to get fat.
John Updike
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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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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History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.
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When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
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What seems to sell books is good word-of-mouth, not promotion tours. I'm too old to believe that media promotion of a book really matters. What matters is how it will look 100 years from now, not how many copies are sold.
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The throat: how strange, that there is not more erotic emphasis upon it. For here, through this compound pulsing pillar, our life makes its leap into spirit, and in the other direction gulps down what it needs of the material world.
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Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle.
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There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight.
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What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?
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Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.
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Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
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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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Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
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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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The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.
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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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What we need is progress with an escape hatch.
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But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.
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There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.
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Being naked approaches being revolutionary going barefoot is mere populism.
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Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.
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