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John Updike

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Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.


— John Updike


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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.


— John Updike


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When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.


— John Updike


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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.


— John Updike


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He once wrote that it was "a subject which if I have not exhausted has exhausted me. His mother's attempts to be a publiJohn Updiked writer influenced the young Updike's own aspirations. Later Updike and his family relocated to Ipswich Massachusetts.

John Hoyer Updike (18 March 1932 – 27 January 2009) was an American novelist poet short story writer art critic and literary critic. Hundreds of his stories reviews and poems appeared in The New Yorker starting in 1954. Describing his subject as "the American small town Protestant middle class" Updike was well recognized for his careful craftsmanship his unique prose style and his prolificity.

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