Ocupation: Novelist
Life: March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009
Birthday: March 18
Death: January 27
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
source: John Updike (2011). “Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism”, p.467, Random House
topic: Marriage, Real, Heaven, Temporality