Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way o…

John Updike
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Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey. ✨ FaceBook post byJohn Updike from Feb 22, 2013
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Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer. ✨ John Updike (2011). Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf, p.126, Random House
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. ✨ FaceBook post byJohn Updike from Dec 31, 2013
By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved. ✨ John Updike (2012). Couples: A Novel, p.550, Random House
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. ✨ John Updike (2012). Self-Consciousness: Memoirs, p.228, Random House
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. ✨ Christian Science Monitor, March 5, 1979.

Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey. ✨ FaceBook post byJohn Updike from Feb 22, 2013

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