What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the… - John Updike

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What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

John Updike

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About John Updike

John Hoyer Updike (18 March 1932 – 27 January 2009) was an American novelist, poet, critic and short-story writer.

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I like middles. . . It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

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There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.