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Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

~John Updike

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The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.

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Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.

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We are most alive when we're in love.

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The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

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Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

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Hobbies take place in the cellar and smell of airplane glue.

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What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.

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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

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All love comes from the family.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: March 18th, 1932

Died: January 27th, 2009

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