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John Updike

"On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence."

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Amber Hurdle

"You are not walking slow enough, when taking a walk, if you do not come across as bored or depressed (to the average sane person)."

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"Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all."

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Amber Hurdle

"Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. If they observed this duty conscientiously, they would give us fewer pictures chequered with vivid contrasts of light and shade; they would seldom elevate their heroes and heroines to the heights of rapture - still seldomer sink them to the depths of despair; for if we rarely taste the fulness of joy in this life, we yet more rarely savour the acrid bitterness of hopeless anguish."

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"A cat is a cat."

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Amber Hurdle

"The bowl is warmer than the soup."

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"An idiot child screaming in a hospital. (on George Bernard Shaw)"

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"Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see."

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"While humans play God, dogs learn from their masters."

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"His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines."

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"And only after he said it did he realize that among the countless suicides he could remember, this was the first with cyanide that had not been caused by the sufferings of love. Then something changed in the tone of his voice."And when you do find one, observe with care, he said to the intern:"they almost always have crystals in their heart."

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John Updike
"Sex is like money; only too much is enough."

Money

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John Updike
"Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism."

Being

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John Updike
"Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading."

Government

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John Updike
"Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone."

Writing

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John Updike
"Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea."

Poetry

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John Updike
"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."

Society

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John Updike
"America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy."

Society

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"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."

Marriage

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John Updike
"Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man."

Truth

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"Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life."

Life

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