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«What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?»
Author: John Updike
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«Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over animation. One can either see or be seen.»
«The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.»
«I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.»
Author: John Updike
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«It was one of history's great love stories, the mutually profitable romance which Hollywood and bohunk America conducted almost in the dark, a tapping of fervent messages through the wall of the San Gabriel Range.»
«He had a sensation of anxiety and shame, a sensitivity acute beyond usefulness, as if the nervous system, flayed of its old hide of social usage, must record every touch of pain.»
Author: John Updike
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acute, flay, flayed, flays, sensation, sensitivity, social system, social systems, touch system, usage, usefulness
«Hemingway described literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other»
«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.»
«The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before and he does it without destroying something else»
Author: John Updike
«Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.»
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