We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a universe

John Updike
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More Quotes By John Updike
  1. It is easy to love people in memory the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

  2. Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

  3. If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

  4. The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

  5. Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

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