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John Updike Quotes:

Ocupation: Novelist

Life: March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009

Birthday: March 18

Death: January 27

Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the single, simple human life that we all more or less lead, with its crude elementals of nurture and appetite, love and competition, the sunshine of well-being and the inevitable night of death. We each live this tale. Fiction has no reason to be embarrassed about telling the same story again and again, since we all, with infinite variations, experience the same story.

- John Updike

topic: Home, Sunshine, Simple, Home Base

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