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Quotes by John Updike
- That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
- The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
- The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
- The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
- The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
- 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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