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Our tears fatten upon our memories of joy.
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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Journalism has not only its social stimulations but its aesthetic virtues. An invitation into print, from however suspect a source, is an opportunity to make something beautiful, to discover within oneself a treasure that would otherwise have remained buried.
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There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.
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Being naked approaches being revolutionary going barefoot is mere populism.
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Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song.
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In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.
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The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old, The birds are flown.
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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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Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.
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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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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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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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You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
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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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The muttered hint, Remember, you have a stroke here, freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.
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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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As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.
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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
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