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Way Quotes by John Updike
- We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer…
- What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid…
- Nothing seems to matter quite as much. I no longer think about death in the concentrated way I once did. I don't know? you get…
- I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board of other partners…
- 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…
- ...but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if…
- Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
- There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.
- My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to make beautiful books…
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