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thehopefulquotes · 9 months

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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, My Father’s Tears and Other Stories

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m-accost · 9 months

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Guy who refers to Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" and Updike's "Gertrude and Claudius" as "The Hamlet Extended Universe"

#hamlet #tom stoppard #john updike #william shakespeare #rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead #gertrude and claudius

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litsnaps · 2 months

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#literature #quotes #John Updike #Rabbit Run #quote #lit #books #words

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thoughtkick · 27 days

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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, My Father’s Tears and Other Stories

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apoemaday · 4 months

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January

by John Updike

The days are short The sun a spark Hung thin between The dark and dark. Fat snowy footsteps Track the floor And parkas pile up Near the door. The river is A frozen place Held still beneath The trees' black lace The sky is low. The wind is gray. The radiator Purrs all day.

#poetry #john updike #january

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perfectquote · 25 days

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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, My Father’s Tears and Other Stories

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perfectfeelings · 5 months

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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, My Father’s Tears and Other Stories

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quotefeeling · 5 months

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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, My Father’s Tears and Other Stories

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perfeqt · 2 months

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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, My Father’s Tears and Other Stories

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lispektor · 3 months

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The Sopranos (1999-2007) / Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike

#the sopranos #tony soprano #meadow soprano #christopher moltisanti #livia soprano #did i omit aj? yes sorry #john updike #gertrude and claudius #literature #DONT GET ME STARTED ON THE HAMLET PARALLELS #anyways this is loosely put together sorry #my edit #web weaving #sopranos web weaving

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resqectable · 9 months

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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, My Father’s Tears and Other Stories

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lillyli-74 · 9 months

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Photography by Christina Coral

How innocently life ate the days.

~John Updike

#christina coral #john updike

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novlr · 5 months

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"I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head." — John Updike

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quotemadness · 1 year

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

John Updike

#John Updike #quotes #quote #lit #literature

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thoughtkick · 10 months

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

John Updike, Rabbit, Run

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apoemaday · 8 months

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Hoeing

by John Updike

I sometimes fear the younger generation will be deprived of the pleasures of hoeing; there is no knowing how many souls have been formed by this simple exercise. The dry earth like a great scab breaks, revealing moist-dark loam— the pea-root’s home, a fertile wound perpetually healing. How neatly the green weeds go under! The blade chops the earth new. Ignorant the wise boy who has never performed this simple, stupid, and useful wonder.

#poetry #john updike #hoeing

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