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"Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings."
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John Updike[Janice] Looking back from this distance, she cant think any more that — John Updike
"[Janice] Looking back from this distance, she cant think any more that Harry was all to blame for their early troubles, he had just been trying life on too: life and sex and making babies and finding out who you are."
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John Updike
John Updike
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John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career.
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"Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea."
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"I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples."
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"That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds."
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"Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another days progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper."
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"When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas."
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