I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living ro…

John Updike
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I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves. ✨ John Updike, James Plath (1994). Conversations with John Updike, p.113, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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