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The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images.
— John Updike
Tags: religion, beauty, success, life

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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
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What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.
— John Updike
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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
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Belief, like love, must be voluntary.
— John Updike
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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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