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You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

Rabbit Redux

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Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.
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Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.
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Yard by yard.
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Life is hard.
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Life is a cinch.
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Inch by inch.
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All vagrants think they're on a quest. At least at first.
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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
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John Updike was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on March 18, 1932. Throughout his prolific career, he published over twenty novels, ten short story collections, and several books of poetry and essays. He is particularly famous for his novel series about the character Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, which includes "Rabbit, Run" (1960), "Rabbit Redux" (1971), "Rabbit Is Rich" (1981), and "Rabbit at Rest" (1990). Updike received numerous literary awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction. His detailed and lyrical writing established him as one of the great stylists of American literature. He died in Danvers, Massachusetts, on January 27, 2009.