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John Updike Quotes
«If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.»
Author: John Updike
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earning
«An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.»
Author: John Updike
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world affairs
«Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.»
Author: John Updike
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attempts, bankruptcy, obscene, spiritualism, theologian, theologians
«Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.»
Author: John Updike
«The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.»
Author: John Updike
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enjoys, guarantee, intended, onto, optimism, outer, personified, personify, projected, relation, relation to
«It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.»
Author: John Updike
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accepts, antibodies, antibody, flimsiest, flimsy, lateness, overlooks, patching, quotidian, rents, repair, unvaccinated
