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John Updike

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one’s obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

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John Updike

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.

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John Updike

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.

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John Updike

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

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John Updike

There’s a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can’t.

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John Updike

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

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John Updike

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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John Updike

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

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John Updike

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

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John Updike

Arabic is very twisting, very beautiful. The call to prayer is quite haunting; it almost makes you a believer on the spot.

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John Updike

The firmest house in my fiction, probably, is the little thick-walled sandstone farmhouse of ‘The Centaur’ and ‘Of the Farm’; I had lived in that house, and can visualize every floorboard and bit of worn molding.

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John Updike

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

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