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Our tears fatten upon our memories of joy.
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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Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and sour-faced reporters that crowd around the dugouts can quite smother the exhilarating spaciousness and grace of this impudently relaxed sport, a game of innumerable potential redemptions and curious disappointments.
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I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good and bad nature. It is all in where you stand at the time.
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You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.
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One does not go to Moscow to get fat.
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School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.
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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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To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.
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Within your own generation-the same songs, the same wars, the same attitudes toward those wars, the same rules and radio shows in the air-you can gauge the possibilities and impossibilities. With a person of another generation, you are treading water, playing with fire.
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The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.
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We are cruel enough without meaning to be.
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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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Art imitates Nature in this not to dare is to dwindle.
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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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There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.
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In no other sport must the spectator move.
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I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.
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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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The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.
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Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.
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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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