John Updike

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It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you

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The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding

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Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings

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If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price

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Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey