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Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
— John Updike
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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.
— John Updike
Tags: writing, life, inspirational-quotes
What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.
— John Updike
Tags: think, men, me, women
Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer and weep.
— John Updike
Tags: everything, want, me, myself
Belief, like love, must be voluntary.
— John Updike
Tags: belief, must, like, love
New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.
— John Updike
Tags: like, new, live, you
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