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John Updike was an American writer who was born in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1932.
* He is best known for his novels, short stories, and poetry.
* Updike won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice, in 1982 and 1990.
* He was also a National Book Award winner and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
* Updike died in 2009 at the age of 76.
* His work is still widely read and admired today.
* He is considered one of the most important American writers of the 20th century.
* His work is known for its wit, humor, and sharp observations about American life.
* He is a master of the short story form and his work is often praised for its realism and its insights into the human condition.

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

John Updike

Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

John Updike

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

John Updike

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

John Updike

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

John Updike

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