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Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
JOHN UPDIKE, A Month of Sundays
All vagrants think they're on a quest. At least at first.
I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.
Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
JOHN UPDIKE, On the Vineyard
You know how it is with fathers, you never escape the idea that maybe after all they're right.
The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with torture called education.
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
JOHN UPDIKE, Problems and Other Stories
I don't think even the blackest atheist has an idea of what real separation [from God] will be. Outer darkness. What we live in you might call ... "inner darkness."
Christianity isn't looking for a rainbow. If it were ... we'd pass out opium at services. We're trying to serve God, not be God.
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