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American Novelist, Writer March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009

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In that latitude the temperature flirted with a hundred degrees for a few of the dog days, but to a child it can hardly ever be too hot. I liked the sun licking the backs of my legs, and the sweat between my shoulder blades, and the violet evenings, with ice cream and fireflies, wherein the long day slowly cooled. I liked the ants piling up dirt like coffee grounds between the bricks of our front walk, and the milkweed spittle in the vacant lot next door. I liked the freedom of shorts,... John Updike
Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door. John Updike
John Updike quote: "Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the..."
Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them. John Updike
John Updike quote: "But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two..."
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography. John Updike

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