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Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.
John Updike
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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From infancy on, we are all spies the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
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What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
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Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
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To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for thought, such a complexity of envisioned but frustrated possibilities, such a troubling ability to question the tribal and biological imperatives.
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The scrape and snap of Keds on loose alley pebbles seems to catapult their voices high into the moist March air blue above the wires.
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A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means whereby it was made. We do not trust the artist's flattering hand but we do trust film, and shadows, and light.
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The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes.
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Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape.
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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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History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.
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There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.
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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
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There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.
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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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One does not go to Moscow to get fat.
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I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.
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The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.
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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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Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.
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Basically it's true that my own life has been my chief window for life in America, beginning with my childhood and the conflicts, the struggles, the strains that I felt in my own family.
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