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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
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
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
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