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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.
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 muttered hint, Remember, you have a stroke here, freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
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