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John Updike föddes den 18 März 1932 - US writer
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 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.

 By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

 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.

 Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

 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.

 Doctorow here appears not so much a re-constructor of history as a visionary who seeks in time past occasions for poetry.

 Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

 Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

 Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

 Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

 For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do -- they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.

 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.

 From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

 Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

 Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.


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