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A cynic is a kind of romantic who has aged.
John Updike
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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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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Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me I don't know how they do it.
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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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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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