Frases de John Updike
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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

“Os sonhos tornam-se realidade. Sem essa possibilidade, a natureza não nos incentivaria a tê-los.”

“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.”

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

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.”

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.”

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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“Mulheres: você nunca sabe de que lado elas querem dançar.”

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“Difícil de acreditar que Deus está sempre ouvindo, nunca fica entediado.”

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“Se ela tivesse nascido na hora certa, eles a teriam queimado em Salem.”

John Updike: Frases em inglês

“When you're retired, you get into your routines and other people, even so-called loved ones, become a strain.”

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John Updike livro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“[re the human heart] That little electric twitch: without it we're so much rotting meat.”

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John Updike livro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore, for instance, and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.”

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“Confessions of a Wild Bore” in Assorted Prose (1965)

“[Re Florida] Just not being senile is considered great down here.”

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John Updike livro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“"Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
"Who says?"
"I say; everybody says!"
"Why would we have a Depression?"
"Because we don't have any discipline! We're drowning in debt! We don't even own our own country any more!"”

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John Updike livro Rabbit at Rest

[Harry, to Nelson]
Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“…he tries to view his life as a brick of sorts, set in place with a slap in 1933 and hardening ever since, just one life in rows and walls and blocks of lives.”

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John Updike livro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“Weeds don't know they're weeds.”

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John Updike livro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“He’s not that young, he’s turned twenty-three, and what makes him feel foolish among these people, he’s married. Nobody else here looks married. There is sure nobody else pregnant, that it shows. It makes him feel put on display, as a guy who didn’t know better.”

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Rabbit is Rich (1981)

“[Pru, to Harry] She tells him, "You were one of the things I liked about Nelson. Maybe I thought Nelson would grow into somebody like you."
"Maybe he did. You don't get to see what a bastard I can be."”

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John Updike livro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.”

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Fonte: Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989), Ch. 6

“[re a woman on TV on 'Wheel of Fortune'] She makes you proud to be a two-legged mammal.”

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John Updike livro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“[Mim, to Nelson, about Annabelle, aged 39] "This little nursie's not your problem. At thirty-nine, everybody's their own problem…"”

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John Updike livro Rabbit Remembered

Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“[Re Annabelle] …she is an old maid already. But the bright-eyed flounce with which she sits down and slides her way to the center of the table in the booth suggests that she is still hopeful, still a player in whatever the game is.”

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John Updike livro Rabbit Remembered

Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“[Mim to Nelson] "Your father wasn't stupid, he just acted stupid."”

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John Updike livro Rabbit Remembered

Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.”

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John Updike livro Couples

Fonte: Couples (1968), Ch. 5

“I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.”

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Testimony given before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor, Boston, Massachusetts (30 January 1978)

“As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world…”

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John Updike livro Rabbit, Run

Rabbit, Run (1960)

“…he feels a stifling uselessness in things, a kind of atomic decay whereby the precious glowing present turns, with each tick of the clock, into the leaden slag of history.”

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John Updike livro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“[Harry, to Thelma, about Janet] "She never really figured out how the world is put together but she's still working at it."”

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John Updike livro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“[Nelson, about Harry] "I saw him, eventually," Nelson says, "as a loser, who never found his niche and floated along on Mom's money, which was money her father made. […] But being a loser wasn't the way my father saw himself. He saw himself as a winner, and until I was twelve or so I saw him the same way."”

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John Updike livro Rabbit Remembered

Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“The artistic triumph of American Jewry lay, he thought, not in the novels of the 1950s but in the movies of the 1930s, those gargantuan, crass contraptions whereby Jewish brains projected Gentile stars upon a Gentile nation and out of their own immigrant joy gave a formless land dreams and even a kind of conscience.”

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Bech, A Book (1970)

“Who wants to fish, if you're halfway civilised? Dangling some dead meat in front of some poor brainless thing and then pulling him up by a hook in the roof of his mouth? Cruellest thing people do is fish.”

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John Updike livro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“Once when Harry asked Ed why they didn't go back to Toledo, Ed looked at him with that smartass squint and asked, "You ever been to Toledo?"”

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John Updike livro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.”

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“The Bankrupt Man,” Hugging the Shore

“…they were nobodies in the county, they would leave nothing behind but their headstones.”

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John Updike livro Rabbit Remembered

Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“These dysfunctionals make him aware of how functional he is.”

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John Updike livro Rabbit Remembered

Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“Women are actresses, tuning their part to each little audience.”

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John Updike livro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“What held him back all day was the feeling that somewhere there was something better for him than listening to babies cry and cheating people in used-car lots and it's this feeling he tries to kill, right there on the bus; he grips the chrome bar and leans far over two women with white pleated blouses and laps of packages and closes his eyes and tries to kill it.”

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John Updike livro Rabbit, Run

Rabbit, Run (1960)

“Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.”

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“Marching through a Novel” in Tossing and Turning (1977)

“It was one of history’s great love stories, the mutually profitable romance which Hollywood and bohunk America conducted almost in the dark, a tapping of fervent messages through the wall of the San Gabriel Range.”

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Bech, A Book (1970)