John Updike
American writer and criticus
Lived from: 1932 - 2009
Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: United States
Born: 18 march 1932 Died: 27 january 2009
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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.
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Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.
― John Updike
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