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John Updike Quotes

Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time? Picture Quote #1

Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear Picture Quote #1

There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say Picture Quote #1

If you’re telling me I’m not mature, that’s one thing I don’t cry over since as far as I can make out it’s the same thing as being dead Picture Quote #1

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life Picture Quote #1

Dream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways; we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of cobweb, and awaken not with any sense of unjust hazard but only with a regret that the round can never be completed, and that one of our phantasmal companions has kept the scorecard Picture Quote #1

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But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it’s fatal not to go through with it Picture Quote #1

John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, tom Pynchon. I like to read Archie Ammons, my great friend. And Harold Bloom, another former student Picture Quote #1

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Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time? (John Updike Quotes) Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear (John Updike Quotes) There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say (John Updike Quotes) If you’re telling me I’m not mature, that’s one thing I don’t cry over since as far as I can make out it’s the same thing as being dead (John Updike Quotes) You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life (John Updike Quotes) Dream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways; we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of cobweb, and awaken not with any sense of unjust hazard but only with a regret that the round can never be completed, and that one of our phantasmal companions has kept the scorecard (John Updike Quotes) But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it’s fatal not to go through with it (John Updike Quotes) John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, tom Pynchon. I like to read Archie Ammons, my great friend. And Harold Bloom, another former student (John Updike Quotes)

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