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John Hoyer Updike war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller.

Updike hat mehr als 20 Romane und Sammlungen von Kurzgeschichten veröffentlicht, daneben mehrere Sammlungen von Essays und Gedichtbänden. Er hat zahlreiche amerikanische Literaturpreise und -auszeichnungen erhalten und zählte viele Jahre lang zu den Anwärtern auf den Literatur-Nobelpreis. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. März 1932 – 27. Januar 2009  •  Andere Namen John Hoyer Updike, Con Apdayk
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„Träume werden wahr; ohne diese Möglichkeit hätte die Natur uns nicht dazu angeregt, sie zu haben.“

John Updike

„Die christliche Sitte, träge aufrecht dazusitzen wie bei einer Unterhaltungsveranstaltung, deutet darauf hin, dass Gott als Unterhaltungskünstler gilt, der von der Bühne entfernt und durch eine andere Nummer ersetzt werden kann, wenn er nicht mehr unterhält.“

John Updike buch Terrorist

Terrorist

„Vorsichtshalber haben sie das Etikett 'Kapitalismus' ersetzt durch solche, auf denen 'freie Marktwirtschaft' und 'Konsumkultur' steht, nur roch das immer noch zu sehr nach Hund-frisst-Hund, nach allzu vielen Verlierern und maßlos abrahmenden Gewinnern. Wenn man die Hunde aber isch nicht miteinander balgen lässt, dann liegen sie den ganzen Tag im Zwinger und pennen. Im Grund besteht das Problem darin, dass die Gesellschaft anständig zu sein versucht, und mit Anstand ist gegen die menschliche Natur nichts auszurichten. Nicht das Geringste. Wir sollten alle wieder Jäger und Sammler werden, dann hätten wir eine hundertprozentige Beschäftigungsquote und ein gesundes Magenknurren.“

John Updike buch Terrorist

Terrorist

„Sie wissen nicht, was Sie nicht wissen.“

John Updike

„Ich habe in diesen Tagen viel über Liebe nachgedacht, und darüber, wie ich das Wort hasste und es ständig wieder gebrauchte, und mir fällt ein - eine der vergänglichen Offenbarungen der Schlaflosigkeit - dass wir, ehe wir etwas lieben, uns so etwas wie eine Nachbildung davon machen müssen, ein Erinnerungsgebilde aus flüchtigen Eindrücken und Augenblicken, das alsdann seine äussere, ziemlich langweilige Erscheinung durch eine sternbildhafte Verinnerlichung ersetzt, phosporeszierend, bequem und tragbar und am Ende unempfindlich gegen den rüden Raubbau der Wirklichkeit.“

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„Wir wissen eben nicht, was einer tun sollte, wir haben nicht mehr wir früher Antworten parat; wir wursteln uns bloß weiter durch und versuchen, nicht nachzudenken.“

John Updike buch Terrorist

Terrorist

John Updike Zitate und Sprüche

„Also ist mein Sohn ein Simpel.'
In einer Hinsicht. Aber der größte Teil der Menschheit ist so. Weil es sonst zu schwer zu ertragen ist, Mensch zu sein. Im Gegensatz zu den Tieren wissen wir zu viel. Sie, die anderen Tiere, wissen gerade genug, um ihren Job zu machen und zu sterben. Um zu essen, zu schlafen, zu vögeln, Babys zu kriegen und zu sterben.“

John Updike buch Terrorist

Terrorist

„Regierung ist entweder organisiertes Wohlwollen oder organisierter Wahnsinn; seine besondere Größe erlaubt keine Schattierung.“

John Updike

„Wir sind grausam genug, ohne es zu wollen.“

John Updike

„Berühmtheit ist eine Maske, die sich in dein Gesicht frisst.“

John Updike

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„… Die Japaner interessieren ihn professionell. Wie machen sie und die Deutschen das, während die Amerikaner die Röhren runtergehen?“

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John Updike: Zitate auf Englisch

“Not his problem. Fewer and fewer things are.”

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John Updike buch Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.”

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Act II
Buchanan Dying (1974)

“Did Nelson ever tell you the story," Pru asks Annabelle, "how he lost the agency up his nose?”

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John Updike buch Rabbit Remembered

Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.”

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

“Her sentences march under a harsh sun that bleaches color from them but bestows a peculiar, invigorating, Pascalian clarity.”

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John Updike, reviewing The Only Problem in New Yorker, July 23, 1984.

“His wife is, it occurs to Harry, a channel that can't be switched. The same slightly too-high forehead, the same dumb stubborn slot of a mouth, day after day, same time, same station.”

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John Updike buch Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.”

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John Updike buch Rabbit, Run

Rabbit, Run (1960)

“When Rabbit first began to drive the road was full of old fogeys going too slow and now it seems nothing but kids in a hell of a hurry, pushing. Let 'em by, is his motto. Maybe they'll kill themselves on a telephone pole in the next mile. He hopes so.”

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Rabbit is Rich (1981)

“The houses, many of them no longer lived in by the people whose faces he all knew, are like the houses in a town you see from the train, their brick faces blank in posing the riddle, Why does anyone live here? Why was he set down here, why is this town, a dull suburb of a third-rate city, for him the center and index of a universe that contains immense prairies, mountains, deserts, forests, cities, seas? This childish mystery—the mystery of ‘any place,’ prelude to the ultimate, ‘Why am I me?’—ignites panic in his heart.”

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John Updike buch Rabbit, Run

Rabbit, Run (1960)

“You don’t stop caring, champ. You still care about that little girl whose underpants you saw in kindergarten. Once you care, you always care. That’s how stupid we are.”

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Rabbit is Rich (1981)

“The male sense of space must differ from that of the female, who has such interesting, active, and significant inner space. The space that interests men is outer. The fly ball high against the sky, the long pass spiraling overhead, the jet fighter like a scarcely visible pinpoint nozzle laying down its vapor trail at 40,000 feet, the gazelle haunch flickering just beyond arrow-reach, the uncountable stars sprinkled on their great black wheel, the horizon, the mountaintop, the quasar — these bring portents with them and awaken a sense of relation with the invisible, with the empty. The ideal male body is taut with lines of potential force, a diagram extending outward; the ideal female body curves around centers of repose.”

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“The Disposable Rocket,” Michigan Quarterly Review (Fall 1993)

“Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.”

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Quelle: Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989), Ch. 1

“Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.”

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John Updike

Act I
Buchanan Dying (1974)

“I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on those green hills. The worship of Mammon is also somewhat lessened there by the spirit of irony. I don't get hay fever in New England either.”

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London Observer (25 March 1979)

“Thirty-six years old and he knows less than when he started. With the difference that now he knows how little he'll always know.”

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John Updike buch Rabbit Redux

Rabbit Redux (1969)

“Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.”

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Life Magazine (September 1986)

“An author that's in now might be out in ten years. And vice-versa. Who knows when the final sifting is done, in the year 2050, say, who will be read of my generation? You'd like to think you will be one. But there has to be a constant weeding that goes on. The Victorians read all kinds of writers who we don't have time for now. Who reads Thackeray? An educated person reads Dickens, or reads some Dickens. But Thackeray?”

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Salon interview (2000)

“[about the past, and Mary Ann, before Harry went to do his two years in the army] Maybe she sensed something about him. A loser. Though at eighteen he looked like a winner.”

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John Updike buch Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.”

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Writers on Themselves (1986)

“Whenever somebody tells me to do something my instinct's always to do the opposite. It's got me into a lot of trouble, but I've had a lot of fun.”

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John Updike buch Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“Your children's losing battle with time seems even sadder than your own.”

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John Updike buch Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“Nelson wonders why, no matter how cheerful and blameless the day's activities have been, when you wake in the middle of the night there is guilt in the air, a gnawing feeling of everything being slightly off, wrong – you in the wrong, and the world too, as if darkness is a kind of light that shows us the depth we are about to fall into.”

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John Updike buch Rabbit Remembered

Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“Yes, there is a ton of information on the web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile.”

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Speech at the Book Expo America Saturday Book & Author Breakfast (26 May 2006) https://web.archive.org/web/20080807154650/http://bookexpocast.com/2006/05/26/bea-2-john-updike-speech/

“When you feel irresistable, you're hard to resist.”

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John Updike buch Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.”

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On T. S. Eliot (1984) by Peter Ackroyd, in which the Eliot estate forbade quotation from Eliot’s books and letters, The New Yorker (25 March 1985)

“Mim has hung up. She has a life to get on with.”

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John Updike buch Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.”

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Introduction to The Best American Short Stories of 1984 (1984)

“"… Nelson'll be thirty-three in a couple of months." He thinks it would be a waste of breath, and maybe offensive, to explain to Mr Shimada that at that same age Jesus Christ was old enough to be crucified and redeem mankind.”

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John Updike buch Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

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