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A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.

~John Updike

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But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

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The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

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Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

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Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

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The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

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Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

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For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.

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There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: March 18th, 1932

Died: January 27th, 2009

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