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Author: John Updike
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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
I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.
I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.
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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
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
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
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John Updike
Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
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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
All love comes from the family.
All love comes from the family.
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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
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