- Dazzling
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- Nov 07, 2020
John Updike Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
- Assumed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
- Doors
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.
- Poet
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- Nov 07, 2020
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
- Conspiracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are most alive when we're in love.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020