Not much for me to say here, so I figured I would just repeat myself from a previous post about a writer’s passing... “Your books will always have a place on my shelf” seems appropriate enough, and true.
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And now, a few favorite Updike quotes…
“Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.”
“I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.”
“If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.”
"We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one."
“Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”
"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."
"Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works."
"Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea."
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