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irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat 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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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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Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.
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You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.
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Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
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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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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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Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song.
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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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The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our essential selves.
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All those little congruences and arabesques you prepared with such delicate anticipatory pleasure are gobbled up as if by pigs at a pastry cart.
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The other sad truth about golf spectatorship is that for today's pros it all comes down to the putting, and that the difference between a putt that drops and one that rims the cup, though teleologically enormous, is intellectually negligeable.
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Mozart's music gives us permission to live.
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Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape.
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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
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Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.
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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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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
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There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.
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The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.
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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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