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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the

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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The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things. – John Updike

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Golf
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That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. – John Updike

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Marriage
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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – John Updike

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Education
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Other Quotes from
Poetry
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Poetry

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. – Mark Strand

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Poetry

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. – Richard Dawkins

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Poetry

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our ears. – Octavio Paz

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Poetry

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A man is sometimes lost in the dust of his own raising. – David Ruggles

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Self

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty. – Mark Twain

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Baby or Adoption

Dreams From My Father reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after theyre dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader. – Jonathan Raban

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Dreams

I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies. – M. Night Shyamalan

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movies