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John Updike
John Updike
American Novelist
Born: Mar 18, 1932
Died: Jan 27, 2009
About Life Like Me Think You
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft Herman Melville James Baldwin Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. John Updike
Patience People Half Healthy Year Own Other Bore Adult Consumes Weight His Male Times Each Each Year
Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered. John Updike
Brainy Inspiration Delivered Material Packet
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. John Updike
Walls Doors Right One Leads Particular Like Know Opens Because Within Narrative Been False Exit Author Door While Room Us Choices Apparent Painted Many Whose Right Number
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. John Updike
Poet Walks Few Own Phrases Through Odd Line His Verse Letters Biography Two
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. John Updike
Experience Horrible Rather Only Feel Feels Like Ecstasy Does Still Existence Itself Which
Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. John Updike
Truth Privacy Man Woman Herself Bestow Simply Like Forced Reflected Itself Decided Manifest Certain Should Who Her
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. John Updike
Government Madness Benevolence Shading Magnitude Permits Either Organized Peculiar
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. John Updike
Art Change People Offended Mirror Convictions Respectable Admit Facts Know Most Fresh Reflections Customs Last
My actinic keratosis is a result of the triumphalism of the beach. The sun exacerbates it. John Updike
Result Sun Beach
A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two. John Updike
Day Pay Willing Colleges Tempting Poke Pinch Author American Amount Number Two
The Internet doesn't like you to learn too much about explosives. John Updike
You Internet Too Much Too About Like Learn Much Explosives
I think my first story sold for $550. This was in 1954, and it seemed like quite a lot of money, and I said to myself, 'Hey, I'm a professional writer now.' John Updike
Myself Money First Think Sold Hey Seemed Writer Like Said Lot Quite Quite A Lot Story Professional Professional Writer Now
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