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Should Quotes by John Updike
- I think books should have secrets, like people do.
- Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear.
- Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself…
- 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…
- Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can…
- I never really made a choice to live in America, so I should be aware of the social strata outside of the ones that I…
- There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe.
- Authors should be honored only for their works.
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