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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
I really don’t want to encourage younger writers. Keep them down and out and silent is my motto. Do they talk about encouraging younger actresses? No. You don’t want any younger actress to come along and outshine you.
I think “taste” is a social concept and not an artistic one.
I think what’s most disturbing about success is that it’s very hazardous to your health, as well as to your daily routine. Not only are there intrusions on your time, but there is a kind of corrosion of your own humility and sense of necessary workmanship. You get the idea that anything you do is in some way marvelous.
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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
In memory’s telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
Inch by inch.
Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?
It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.
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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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.