The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints apin…

John Updike
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The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop. ✨ Couples ch. 5 (1968)
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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
I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.
People go around mourning the death of God; it's the death of sssin that bothers me. Without ssin, people aren't people any more, they're just ssoul-less sheep.
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. ✨ Self-Consciousness: Memoirs. Book by John Updike, 1989.
Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another. ✨ John Updike (2003). Rabbit, run ; Rabbit redux

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