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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 fact that we still live well cannot ease the feeling that we no longer live nobly.
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My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.
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The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
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If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead.
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