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"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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By John Updike
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"The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this com"
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"There are times when fear is good It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won"
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"Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity . . . any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about dong it righ"
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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 earning mone"
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"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what on"
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"The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called sc"
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"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 my"
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"It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values-- the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even"
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"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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