98 ordspråk av John Updike

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John Updike föddes den 18 maart 1932 - amerikansk författare.
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en 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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en You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.
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en Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
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en Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad; hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us
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en Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
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en Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
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en I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.
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en I think ''taste'' is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.
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en Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews
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en Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
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en A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
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en To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given
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en Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over animation. One can either see or be seen.
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en The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
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en "Upon shaving off one's beard." The scissors cut the long-grown hair; the razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, bug-eyed, I stare at the forgotten boy I was.
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