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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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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
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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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Life, too much of it, and not enough. The fear that it will end some day, and the fear that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.
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Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.
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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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Affairs, ... , like everything else, ask too much.
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Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.
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The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
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One of the nice things about having a lover, it makes you think about everything anew. The rest of your life becomes a kind of movie, flat and even rather funny.
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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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In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola they promoted thirst without quenching it.
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The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had our boyhood is what any boy in our environment would have had.
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