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[ On Ted Williams’s last baseball game at FenwayPark, Boston, Mass. :] Our noise for someseconds passed beyond excitement into akind of immense open anguish, a cry to besaved. But immortality is nontransferable. Thepapers said that the other players, and eventhe umpires on the field, begged him to comeout and acknowledge us in some way, but henever had and did not now. Gods do not answerletters.
[President George] Bush talked to us like we were a bunch of morons and we ate it up. Can you imagine, the Pledge of Allegiance, read my lips—can you imagine such crap in this day and age?
[TJhose running tights the young women wear now, so they look like spacewomen, raspberry red and electric green so tight they show every muscle right into the crack between the buttocks, what is the point of them? Display. Young animals need to dis- play.
“I never made a decision in my life that wasn’t one hundred per cent selfish.”
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.
A soggy little island huffing and puffing to keep up with Western Europe.
Adversity in immunological doses has its uses; more than that crushes.
All blessings are mixed blessings.
All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.
All vagrants think they're on a quest. At least at first.
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John Updike nasceu em Reading, Pensilvânia, em 18 de março de 1932. Ao longo de sua prolífica carreira, publicou mais de vinte romances, dez coleções de contos e vários livros de poesia e ensaios. Ele é particularmente famoso por sua série de romances sobre o personagem Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, que inclui "Rabbit, Run" (1960), "Rabbit Redux" (1971), "Rabbit Is Rich" (1981) e "Rabbit at Rest" (1990). Updike recebeu inúmeros prêmios literários, incluindo dois prêmios Pulitzer de Ficção. Sua escrita detalhada e lírica o estabeleceu como um dos grandes estilistas da literatura americana. Morreu em Danvers, Massachusetts, em 27 de janeiro de 2009.