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John Updike

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Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.


— John Updike


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Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.


— John Updike


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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.


— John Updike


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Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.


— John Updike


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Sex is like money; only too much is enough.


— John Updike


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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.


— John Updike


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The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.


— John Updike


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The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.


— John Updike


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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.


— John Updike


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Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.


— John Updike


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He once wrote that it was "a subject which if I have not exhausted has exhausted me. His mother's attempts to be a publiJohn Updiked writer influenced the young Updike's own aspirations. Later Updike and his family relocated to Ipswich Massachusetts.

John Hoyer Updike (18 March 1932 – 27 January 2009) was an American novelist poet short story writer art critic and literary critic. Hundreds of his stories reviews and poems appeared in The New Yorker starting in 1954. Describing his subject as "the American small town Protestant middle class" Updike was well recognized for his careful craftsmanship his unique prose style and his prolificity.

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