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

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A woman’s beauty lies, not in any exaggeration of the specialized zones, nor in any general harmony that could be worked out by means of the sectio aurea or a similar aesthetic superstition; but in the arabesque of the spine. The curve by which the back modulates into the buttocks. It is here that grace sits and rides a woman’s body. John Updike
Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works. John Updike
There always comes in September a parched brightness to the air that hits Rabbit two ways, smelling of apples and blackboard dust and marking the return to school and work in earnest, but then again reminding him he's suffered another promotion, taken another step up the stairs that has darkness at the head. John Updike
John Updike quote: "Death is easily fooled. If the churches don't work, a filter..."
Death is easily fooled. If the churches don't work, a filter will do. John Updike
John Updike quote: "Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer..."
Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works. John Updike

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