#john updike

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

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It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

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It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

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It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

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There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.

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Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat,...

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It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

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There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.

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It frightens him to think of her this way. It makes her seem, in terms of love, so vast.

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Hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn’t have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the

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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit.

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