John Updike

Sep 15, 2016 15:30

A Romanian once said to me that Americans are always telling stories. I'm not sure this is as true as it once was. Where we once used to spin yarns, now we sit in front of the tv and receive pictures. I'm not sure the younger generation even knows how to gossip.

-- John Updike at The Paris Review (Winter 1968)

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updike pigshitpoet September 15 2016, 23:15:14 UTC
absolutely for hemingway and miller!
and that other guy, fitzgerald..

; )

in the end, all life filters through paris..

new york is completely something else.

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RE: updike hardblue September 16 2016, 02:18:41 UTC
So, why didn't you settle in France instead of Canada?

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RE: updike pigshitpoet September 16 2016, 05:05:19 UTC
that was my first mistake..

i'm a lost soul,

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RE: updike hardblue September 16 2016, 16:24:39 UTC
Just remember that we almost always tend to think that the road not taken was the best road.

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