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Letter "J" » John Updike Quotes
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«Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.»
«I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.»
«Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.»
«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.»
Author: John Updike
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apparent, exit, exited, exits, narrative, narratives, painted, The Author
«I think ''taste'' is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.»
Author: John Updike
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artistic, concept, explicit, Good taste, intimacy, living room, polite, Short words, Too Short
«Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews»
«Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.»
«The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.»
Author: John Updike
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Writers
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accidents, actualities, actuality, creative work, presentation, presentations, victim
«A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.»
«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»
Author: John Updike
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War,
World
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arrangements, epigram, eunuch, provocative, standpoint, stateless
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