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John Updike

"Momentarily drained of lust, he stares at the remembered contortions to which it has driven him. His life seems a sequence of grotesque poses assumed to no purpose, a magic dance empty of belief."

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"Momentarily drained of lust, he stares at the remembered contortions to which it has driven him. His life seems a sequence of grotesque poses assumed to no purpose, a magic dance empty of belief."

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"Momentarily drained of lust, he stares at the remembered contortions to which it has driven him. His life seems a sequence of grotesque poses assumed to no purpose, a magic dance empty of belief."

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Donna Grant

"What you call love on your side may be called lust on another's side."

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Donna Grant

"Love may be blind, but lust is just damn stupid."

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John Updike
"Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered."

Inspirational

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John Updike
"The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion."

Religion

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John Updike
"A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world."

Leadership

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John Updike
"A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens."

Choice

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John Updike
"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."

Art

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John Updike
"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."

Art

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John Updike
"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."

Writing

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

Marriage

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

Marriage

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John Updike
"Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency."

Wisdom

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