Frases de John Updike
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John Hoyer Updike fue un importante escritor estadounidense, autor de novelas, relatos cortos, poesías, ensayos y críticas literarias, así como de un libro de memorias personales.

La obra más importante de Updike fue la serie de novelas sobre su famoso personaje Harry Conejo Angstrom . De la famosa tetralogía, Conejo es rico y Conejo en paz le permitieron ganar sendos Premio Pulitzer en 1982 y 1991, respectivamente. Describiendo su famoso personaje como «el protestante de clase media de un pequeño pueblo norteamericano», Updike, bien conocido por su escritura prolífica, que raya en un cuidado casi artesanal, llegó a publicar 22 novelas y más de una docena de colecciones de historias cortas, así como poesías, ensayos, críticas literarias e, incluso, libros para niños. Cientos de sus historias, reportajes y poemas han ido apareciendo regularmente en el semanario The New Yorker desde 1950. Su trabajo como escritor explora habitualmente las motivaciones humanas sobre el sexo, la fe, la razón última de la existencia, la muerte, los conflictos generacionales y las relaciones interpersonales. Wikipedia

✵ 18. marzo 1932 – 27. enero 2009 • Otros nombres John Hoyer Updike, Con Apdayk

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Frases célebres de John Updike

“Los sueños se hacen realidad, si no fuese así, la naturaleza no nos incitaría a tenerlos.”

“Estamos más vivos cuando estamos enamorados.”

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“Las malas hierbas no saben que son malas hierbas.”

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“Ese es el problema de preocuparse por alguien, comienza a sentirse sobreprotector. Entonces comienzas a sentirte abarrotado.”

“La cultura brasileña refleja más la africana que la americana. En los EE. UU. tenemos el jazz y casi que sólo eso. No existen personajes como Machado de Assis, un mulato considerado uno de los más grandes escritores del país.”

“Cuatro años de Harvard fueron suficientes. Todavía tengo mucho que aprender, pero se me ha dado la noción liberadora de que ahora puedo enseñarme a mí mismo.”

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“Nadie nos pertenece, salvo en el recuerdo.”

“El sexo es como el dinero, sólo 'demasiado' es suficiente.”

“Le da la sensación de estar rodeado de libertad, de oxígeno. Tothero es como un remolino de aire, y el edificio en el que se encuentra, las calles del pueblo, no son más que escaleras y pasadizos del espacio. Es tan perfecta y coherente la libertad en que se ha convertido el desorden del mundo gracias al simple estallido de su decisión, que todos los caminos parecen buenos, todos los movimientos serán caricias para su piel, y ni un solo átomo de su felicidad se alteraría si Tothero le dijera que en lugar de ir a una cita con dos chicas iban a reunirse con dos machos cabríos, o que no iban a Brewer sino al Tíbet".”

Rabbit, Run

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“Hay una cristalización que continúa en un poema que el joven puede sacar, pero que el hombre de mediana edad no puede.”

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“... "Esa enfermedad que tiene hace un trabajo horrible en ti. Tus pulmones se llenan".”

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“Eres cínico”

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“No sabes lo que no sabes.”

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“El uno mismo esencial es inocente, y cuando prueba su propia inocencia sabe que vive para siempre.”

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“Su voz es apresurada, para mantenerse al día con su cerebro.”

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“Ser capaz de escribir se convierte en una especie de escudo, una forma de esconderse, una forma de transformar demasiado instantáneamente el dolor en miel.”

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“El olor a buen consejo siempre hace que Rabbit quiera correr hacia el otro lado.”

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“Ahora que tengo sesenta años, veo por qué la idea de la sabiduría de los ancianos ha pasado de la moneda.”

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“[eres una mujer en la televisión en la rueda de la fortuna] Ella te enorgullece de ser un mamífero de dos patas.”

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“Los automóviles solían tener formas tan elegantes, como los aviones, cuando el combustible era barato, veinticinco centavos por galón.”

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“La celebridad es una máscara que se come en la cara.”

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“[en el hospital, Janice hablando con el Dr. Olman en presencia de Harry en la sala] "¿Qué le pasa exactamente a su corazón?"”

John Updike: Frases en inglés

“…there ought to be a law that we change identities and families every ten years or so.”

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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“He could have gone over that night and faced the music but how much music is a man supposed to face?”

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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we’re dead we’re dead?”

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Fuente: Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989), Ch. 4

“One of the satisfactions of fiction, or drama, or poetry from the perpetrator’s point of view is the selective order it imposes upon the confusion of a lived life; out of the daily welter of sensation and impression these few verbal artifacts, these narratives or poems, are salvaged and carefully presented.”

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Writers on Themselves (1986)

“He skates saucily over great tracts of confessed ignorance.”

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On T S Matthews, and his biography of T. S. Eliot, Great Tom (1974), in The New Yorker (25 March 1985)

“[Harry listening to car radio] …he resents being made to realise, this late, that the songs of his life were as moronic as the rock the brainless kids now feed on, or the Sixties and Seventies stuff that Nelson gobbled up – all of it designed for empty heads and overheated hormones, an ocean white with foam, and listening to it now is like trying to eat a double banana split the way he used to. It's all disposable, cooked up to turn a quick profit. They lead us down the garden path, the music manufacturers, then turn around and lead the next generation down with a slightly different flavour of glop.
Rabbit feels betrayed. He was reared in a world where war was not strange but change was: the world stood still so you could grow up in it. He knows when the bottom fell out. When they closed down Kroll's, Kroll's that had stood in the centre of Brewer all those years, bigger than a church, older than a courthouse, right at the head of Weiser Square there,… […] So when the system just upped one summer and decided to close Kroll's down, just because shoppers had stopped coming in because the downtown had become frightening to white people, Rabbit realised the world was not solid and benign, it was a shabby set of temporary arrangements rigged up for the time being, all for the sake of money. You just passed through, and they milked you for what you were worth, mostly when you were young and gullible. If Kroll's could go, the courthouse could go, the banks could go. When the money stopped, they could close down God himself.”

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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“There is very little thanks in history. Dog eat dog.”

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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is — its irresistible charm — a fire.”

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On a child doing homework near the family’s television set, in Roger’s Version (1986)

“[Nelson] "…People are crazy. At times when I'm with clients I can't see the difference between them and me, except for the structure we're all in. I get paid, a little, and they get taken care of, a little."”

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John Updike libro Rabbit Remembered

Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“His voice is hurrying, to keep up with his brain.”

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Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“A woman you've endured such a gnawing of desire for, you can't help bearing a little grudge against, when the ache is gone.”

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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.”

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

“The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.”

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On J. D. Salinger, from a review of his Franny and Zooey, in Studies in J. D. Salinger : Reviews, Essays, and Critiques of The Catcher in the Rye and other Fiction (1963) edited by Marvin Laser and Norman Fruman, p. 231; also quoted in The Christian Science Monitor (August 26, 1965) and Updike's Assorted Prose (1965).

“Cars used to have such dashing shapes, like airplanes, back when gas was cheap, twenty-five cents a gallon.”

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John Updike libro Rabbit Remembered

Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“…"That disease he has does an awful job on you. Your lungs fill up."”

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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“[Harry, talking about the doctor who came to the ward and then went away. ] "That guy has a thing about potato chips and hot dogs. If God didn't want us to eat salt and fat, why did He make them taste so good?"”

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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?”

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

“Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.”

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“Going Barefoot,” On the Vineyard (1980)

“She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world…”

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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.”

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Testimony given before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor, Boston (January 30, 1978)

“The smell of good advice always makes Rabbit want to run the other way.”

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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“Like water, blood must run or grow scum.”

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John Updike libro Rabbit Redux

Rabbit Redux (1969)

“He supposes they pretty much have the picture. Most people do, in life. People know more than they let on.”

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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.”

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Bech, A Book (1970)

“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.”

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As quoted in “When Writers Turn to Brave New Forms” by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times (24 March 1986)

“[at the hospital, Janice speaking to Dr Olman in Harry's presence in the ward] "What's wrong with his heart, exactly?"”

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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

Janice asks.
Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.”

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The New Yorker (30 July 1990)

“If society is the prison, families are the cells, with no time off for good behavior. Good behavior in fact tends to lengthen the sentence.”

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John Updike libro Rabbit Remembered

Rabbit Remembered (2000)

“[Thelma] "…You make your own punishments in life, I honest to God believe that. You get exactly what you deserve. God sees to it."”

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John Updike libro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“Like Ronnie said, we're alone. All we have is family, for what it's worth.”

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John Updike libro Rabbit Remembered

Rabbit Remembered (2000)