It's great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses. ✨ John Updike (2010…

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It's great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses. ✨ John Updike (2010). Rabbit Is Rich, p.138, Random House
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. ✨ John Updike's tstimony given before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the House of Representatives Committee on … ▶
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like barn swallows, I swing. There is a fruitless commotion of dust and rubber at my … ▶
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular … ▶
You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands. ✨ John Updike (2011). Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism, p.479, Random House
If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead. ✨ John Updike (2010). Rabbit, Run, p.112, Random House

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