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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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  • 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.
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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.
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  • If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
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