His insides are beginning to feel sickly. The pain of the world is a crater all these syrups and pills a thousandfold would fail to fill.
John UpdikeStill, my fascination with Buchanan did not abate, nor was I able, as the Seventies set in, to move the novel forward through the constant pastiche and basic fakery of any fiction not fed by the springs of memory -- what Henry James calls (in a letter to Sarah Orne Jewett) the "fatal cheapness [and] mere escamotage" of the "'historic' novel.
John UpdikeBeing able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
John UpdikeTags: life writing inspirational-quotes
How many more, I must ask myself,
such perfect ends of Augusts will I witness?
Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works.
John UpdikeTags: women
Death is easily fooled. If the churches don't work, a filter will do.
John Updike....his silence he has indicated that he is willing. He hasn't the strength any more, the excess vitality, for an affair—its danger, its demand performances, the secrecy added like a filigree to your normal life, your gnawing preoccupation with it and with the constant threat of its being discovered and ended.
John UpdikeTags: infidelity extramarital
Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.
John UpdikeAs if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world...
John UpdikeTags: pity
Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.
John UpdikeTags: greatness horror 9-11 witness smallness
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