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John Updike (1932 – 2009)


American novelist, poet, critic and short-story writer.
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John Updike
All men are boys time is trying to outsmart.
Updike quotes
Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.
Updike
It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks latenesses, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patchings to repair great rents in the quotidian.




Updike John quotes
Your children's losing battle with time seems even sadder than your own.
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