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For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what...

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For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what...

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had...

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Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had...

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the...

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From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the...

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players...

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Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players...

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men,...

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men,...

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring...

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There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring...

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

#John Updike

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a...

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To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a...

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed...

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed...

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has...

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Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has...

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would...

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Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would...

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he...

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Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he...

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

#John Updike

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent,...

#John Updike

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent,...

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a...

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When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a...

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing...

#John Updike

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing...

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for...

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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for...