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John Hoyer Updike foi um romancista, poeta, contista, crítico de arte e crítico literário estadunidense.

Formou-se na Universidade de Harvard em 1954 e passou um ano na Inglaterra, no Knox Fellowsship, na Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, em Oxford. De 1955 a 1957, trabalhou na The New Yorker, contribuindo com contos, poemas e críticas de livros.

Tornou-se famoso e reconhecido mundialmente com sua séria de romances Rabbit, iniciada em 1960, que seguem a vida do jogador de basquetebol Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, escritos num período de mais de trinta anos e pelos quais ganhou por duas vezes o Prêmio Pullitzer.

Também de sua autoria, As Bruxas de Eastwick, escrito em 1984, tornou-se um best-seller e grande sucesso no cinema, no filme homônimo estrelado por Jack Nicholson e Cher. Já o romance Pai-Nosso Computador de 1986 aborda a questão da existência de Deus em face da ciência e tecnologia.

Em sua obra constam doze livros de ficção, cinco volumes de poesia e uma peça de teatro.

Considerado um dos grandes romancistas contemporâneos norte-americanos, faleceu em 27 de janeiro de 2009, vítima de câncer do pulmão, em Beverly, no estado de Massachussets, onde residia. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. Março 1932 – 27. Janeiro 2009  •  Outros nomes John Hoyer Updike, Con Apdayk
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John Updike Frases famosas

“Qualquer atividade torna-se criativa e prazerosa quando quem a pratica se interessa por fazê-la bem feita, ou até melhor.”

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“Você não sabe o que não sabe.”

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“A América é uma grande conspiração para fazer você feliz.”

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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy
The early stories, 1953-1975‎ - Página 413, John Updike - A.A. Knopf, 2003, ISBN 1400040728, 9781400040728 - 838 páginas

“O primeiro suspiro de adultério é a liberdade; depois dele, constrangimentos imitam o desenvolvimento do casamento.”

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The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
Couples‎ - Página 456, John Updike - Knopf, 1968 - 458 páginas

“Sexo é como dinheiro, apenas o demais é suficiente.”

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Sex is like money, only too much is enough
Couples‎ - Página 437, John Updike - Knopf, 1968 - 458 páginas

John Updike frases e citações

“A cultura brasileira reflete mais a africana do que a americana. Nos E. U. A. temos o Jazz e quase só isso. Não existem figuras como Machado de Assis, um mulato considerado um dos maiores escritores do país.”

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John Updike: Frases em inglês

“The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.”

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John Updike livro Rabbit Is Rich

Fonte: Rabbit Is Rich

“The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.”

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“Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth’s many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum.”

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Fonte: Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989), Ch. 6; Gratia Dei sum quod sum translates to ”Thanks be to God that I am what I am”

“That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.”

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John Updike livro Rabbit Redux

Fonte: Rabbit Redux

“Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.”

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Accepting Edward MacDowell Medal, New York Times (26 August 1981)

“Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.”

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“But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.”

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Fonte: A&P: Lust in the Aisles

“So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.”

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“A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.”

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"They Thought They Were Better" in TIME magazine (21 July 1980) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,924295,00.html

“Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.”

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“What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?”

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John Updike livro Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories

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“There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.”

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John Updike livro Rabbit, Run

Fonte: Rabbit, Run

“But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.”

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John Updike livro Rabbit, Run

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“It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks latenesses, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patchings to repair great rents in the quotidian.”

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John Updike livro Couples

Fonte: Couples (1968), Ch. 2

“We are cruel enough without meaning to be.”

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John Updike livro Rabbit Is Rich

Fonte: Rabbit Is Rich

“Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?”

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Fonte: Self-Consciousness

“The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.”

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John Updike livro The Centaur

Fonte: The Centaur (1963), Ch. 4

“If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.”

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Fonte: A&P: Lust in the Aisles

“Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.”

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“… hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.”

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John Updike livro Rabbit, Run

Fonte: Rabbit, Run

“Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.”

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“We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything”

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John Updike livro Rabbit Redux

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“[At news that Nelson got himself a counsellor] Harry feels a jealous, resentful pang. His boy is being taken over. His fatherhood hasn't been good enough. They're calling in the professionals.”

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John Updike livro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“He had gone to church and brought back this little flame and had nowhere to put it on the dark damp walls of the apartment, so it had flickered and gone out. And he realised that he wouldn't always be able to produce this flame.”

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John Updike livro Rabbit, Run

Rabbit, Run (1960)

“In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which is different but not basically different, perhaps, from our own. For women, too, there seems to be that tangle of supplication and possessiveness, that descent toward infantile undifferentiation, that omnipotent helplessness, that merger with the cosmic mother-warmth, that flushed pulse- quickened leap into overestimation, projection, general mix-up.”

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“The Female Body,” Michigan Quarterly Review (1990)

“For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do — they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.”

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“The Female Body,” Michigan Quarterly Review (1990)

“[Nelson, about Pru] She had complained for years about living with his mother and Ronnie and about his dead-end job babysitting these pathetic dysfunctionals, boosting his own ego at their expense, caring more about them than he did about his own wife and children, but what it boiled down to in his baffled mind was something she once shouted, her green eyes bright as broken glass in her reddened face: My life with you is too small. Too small. As if being a greaseball lawyer's input organiser and easy lay was bigger. But the size of a life is how you feel about it.”

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John Updike livro Rabbit Remembered

Rabbit Remembered (2000)