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Harvard has enough panegyrists without me.

John Updike / Novelist
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Harvard has enough panegyrists without me.

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John Updike Novelist

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I'm a dull person.

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I like short stories.

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Charles Morgan Playwright

My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.

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I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian.

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I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

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