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John Updike

"They've not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him."

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"You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity."

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"Obscurity is the realm of error."

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"In other words, he was the tree in the forest that silently fell--when no one was around to be crushed."

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"Dying for dark - the darker the worse. Strange."

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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 only you can tell it."
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"Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went."
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"The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist."
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"Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading."
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"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."
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"I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone."
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"Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop, the gut expanded to take in more and more."
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"As long as Nelson was socked into baseball statistics or that guitar or even the rock records that threaded their sound through all the fibers of the house, his occupation of the room down the hall was no more uncomfortable than the persistence of Rabbit's own childhood in an annex of his brain; but when the stuff with hormones and girls and cars and beers began, Harry wanted out of fatherhood."
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"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."
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