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"Even when Harry Angstrom is at his most frustrating, sullen, or reactionary, John Updike’s sentence construction and astute observations are gloriously beautiful and perceptive" — Oct 21, 2026 01:45PM
"Even when Harry Angstrom is at his most frustrating, sullen, or reactionary, John Updike’s sentence construction and astute observations are gloriously beautiful and perceptive" — Oct 21, 2026 01:45PM
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"What she wanted was for him to take his tea and congratulate her, as he always did: 'Purr-fect! Not a drop spilled!'
She didn't want a book, especially not The Water Babies so she stood there offering it back to him, unsure what to say next but finally managing: 'I've already got this, thanks.’" — Oct 21, 2026 05:53AM
"What she wanted was for him to take his tea and congratulate her, as he always did: 'Purr-fect! Not a drop spilled!'
She didn't want a book, especially not The Water Babies so she stood there offering it back to him, unsure what to say next but finally managing: 'I've already got this, thanks.’" — Oct 21, 2026 05:53AM
‘You haven’t got to tell yourself fairy stories any longer. Jennifer has always loved sitting down and thinking how everything has gone wrong. She broods over it and works herself up—but if she likes living that way, why shouldn’t she?’
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“He would be expressing himself from the depths of long days of meditation and suffering, the image that he wanted to communicate having been long tempered in the fire of waiting and passion. The other person, meanwhile, imagined a conventional emotion, the suffering that is hawked around the marketplace, a mass-produced melancholy.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.”
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“Too much thought is bad for the soul, for art, and for crime. It is also a sign of middle age.”
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“If I’d stayed there, would I always have been happy? No, I suppose not. People move away, grow older, die, and the bright belief that there will be another marvelous thing around each corner fades. It is now or never; we must snatch at happiness as it flies.”
― A Month in the Country
― A Month in the Country
“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
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