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The great thing about the dead, they make space.
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I think “taste” is a social concept and not an artistic one.
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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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Possession diminishes perception of value, immediately.
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Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
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It rots a writer's brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily you're well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician.
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How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.
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Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?
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Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains
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It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.
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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.