5 Quotes by John Updike about family
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Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.
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TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn't interrupted every six minutes by commercials and theirs don't get bogged down into nothingness, a state where nothing happens, no skit, no zany visitors, no outburst on the laugh track, nothing at all but boredom and a lost feeling, especially when you get up in the morning and the moon is still shining and men are making noisy bets on the first tee.
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I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession.
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Thinking it over, I can't locate another artist in the Updike family.
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Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle.
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