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Rooms Quotes by John Updike
- What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter at around forty,…
- What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
- 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…
- I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to…
- Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing…
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