John Updike Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009
Birthday: March 18
Death: January 27
Within your own generation-the same songs, the same wars, the same attitudes toward those wars, the same rules and radio shows in the air-you can gauge the possibilities and impossibilities. With a person of another generation, you are treading water, playing with fire.
source: John Updike (2010). “Rabbit at Rest”, p.462, Random House
topic: Song, Attitude, War, Playing With Fire, Treading, Treading Water
