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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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  • An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
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  • The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
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  • 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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