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Autobiography and memoir

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

John Updike

1989

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Dreams

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Autobiography and memoir

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1989

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John Updike

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Updike, John. Self-Consciousness: Memoirs. Knopf, 1989, ch. 3.

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