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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. – John Updike

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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another days progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. – John Updike

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Morning

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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. – John Updike

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Body

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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike

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