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All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so.

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People are incorrigibly themselves.

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I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and cartoons, pictures in a book, the animated movies, seemed to provide it.

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Thinking it over, I can't locate another artist in the Updike family.

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If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.

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I seem to have this need to belong to some church. I get worried on Sunday mornings.

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I love Shillington not as one loves Capri or New York, because they are special, but as one loves one's own body and consciousness, because they are synonymous with being.

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I don't think women are dumb.

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Eros is everywhere. It is what binds.

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The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: March 18th, 1932

Died: January 27th, 2009

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