John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.. American novelist poet short story writer art critic and literary critic
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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? Go to Quote / Comment
For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do -- they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. Go to Quote / Comment
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself. Go to Quote / Comment
The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified. Go to Quote / Comment
By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved. Go to Quote / Comment