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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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John Hoyer Updike
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It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.
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We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.
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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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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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Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many people it's the height of, what they see, of ecstasy and poetry is in their sexual encounters. And furthermore, personality - human personality does not end in the bedroom, but persists.
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All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.
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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.
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In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.
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Dream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of cobweb, and awaken not with any sense of unjust hazard but only with a regret that the round can never be completed, and that one of our phantasmal companions has kept the scorecard.
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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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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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Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.
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Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
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I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.
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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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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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I never made a decision in my life that wasn't one hundred per cent selfish.
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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
John Updike
Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.
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You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.
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