When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
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The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old, The birds are flown.John Updike
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
John Updike
Upon shaving off one's beard. The scissors cut the long-grown hair the razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, bug-eyed, I stare at the forgotten boy I was.
John Updike
There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.
John Updike
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
John Updike
I secretly understood the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is-its irresistible charm-a fire.
John Updike
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