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John Updike

John Updike

American writer and criticus

Lived from: 1932 - 2009

Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 18 march 1932 Died: 27 january 2009

  • Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
  • 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.
  • To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.

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  • Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
    ― John Updike
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