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Author: John Updike
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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
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John Updike
I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.
I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.
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John Updike
To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.
To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.
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John Updike
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
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John Updike
Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-century house, since most of America lacks seventeenth-century houses.
Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-century house, since most of America lacks seventeenth-century houses.
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John Updike
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
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John Updike
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.
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John Updike
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
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John Updike
All love comes from the family.
All love comes from the family.
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John Updike
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