6 Quotes by John Updike about literature
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What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.
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Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
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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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Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
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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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