John Updike Boyhood Quotations
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- Annie Dillard
- Bertrand Russell
- Booth Tarkington
- Charles Dudley Warner
- Chuck Klein
- Cliff Sloan
- Daniel Craig
- Gene Tunney
- George Takei
- George William Russell
- Gilbert K Chesterton
- Henry David Thoreau
- Herbert Hoover
- Horace
- James Payn
- Jimmy Cannon
- Joel Edgerton
- John Flaherty
- John Updike
- Karl Kraus
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Aunt Quotes
My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with 'The Waste Land,' I opened their copy of 'Ulysses.' The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic.