约翰·厄普代克

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The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before and he does it without destroying something else.
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Everybody who tells you how to act has whisky on their breath.
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Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead.
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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.
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He skates saucily over great tracts of confessed ignorance.
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We hope the "real" person behind the words will be revealed as ignominiously as a shapeless snail without its shapely shell.
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But when has happiness ever been the subject of fiction? The pursuit of it is just that - a pursuit.
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A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.
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There is this quality in things, of the Right was seeming Wrong at first. To test our faith.
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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
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