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How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?
John Updike
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.
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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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There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.
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Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them.
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We are cruel enough without meaning to be.
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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.
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It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.
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A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.
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New York is of course many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.
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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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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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One does not go to Moscow to get fat.
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Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
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What we need is progress with an escape hatch.
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American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.
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Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.
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Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.
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There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.
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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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Art imitates Nature in this not to dare is to dwindle.
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