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Author Quotes by John Updike
- A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent…
- A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.
- The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.
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