Seemed to me important in ...

Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It\'s - for many people it\'s the height of, what they see, of ecstasy and poetry is in their sexual encounters. And furthermore, personality - human personality does not end in the bedroom, but persists.
Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many people it's the height of, what they see, of ecstasy and poetry is in their sexual encounters. And furthermore, personality - human personality does not end in the bedroom, but persists.
 John Updike

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Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
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I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather liked it. But I didn't have the mentality.
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Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.
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Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
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You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that I wasn't an orator, unlike my mother and my grandfather, who both spoke beautifully and spoke all the time. Maybe I grew up with too many voices around me, as a matter of fact.
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