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John Updike

"The Chinese food arrives. Delicious saliva fills his mouth. He really hasn't had any since Texas. He loves this food that contains no disgusting proofs of slain animals, a bloody slab of cow haunch, a hen's sinewy skeleton; these ghosts have been minced and destroyed and painlessly merged with the shapes of insensate vegetables, plump green bodies that invite his appetite's innocent gusto. Candy."

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"The Chinese food arrives. Delicious saliva fills his mouth. He really hasn't had any since Texas. He loves this food that contains no disgusting proofs of slain animals, a bloody slab of cow haunch, a hen's sinewy skeleton; these ghosts have been minced and destroyed and painlessly merged with the shapes of insensate vegetables, plump green bodies that invite his appetite's innocent gusto. Candy."

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Donna Grant

"My senses are alive with pleasure and joy."

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"Pleasure, like the sparrow, never sits on any one branch too long."

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Donna Grant

"And not wretched sausages half full of bread and soya bean either, but real meaty, spicy ones, fat and piping hot and burst and just the tiniest bit burnt."

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Donna Grant

"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."

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Donna Grant

"Great sex is a natural drug."

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Donna Grant

"Pleasure, sex - I never did understand this - but a system like the real world has it's on glitches and bugs."

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Donna Grant

"Buying is a profound pleasure."

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Donna Grant

"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure."

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Donna Grant

"I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure."

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Donna Grant

"Not town can live peacefully, whatever its laws," Plato wrote, "when its citizens ... do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love."But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favorite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?"

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John Updike
"Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered."

Inspirational

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John Updike
"The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion."

Religion

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John Updike
"A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world."

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John Updike
"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 door, we know it is the right one because it opens."

Choice

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John Updike
"Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."

Art

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John Updike
"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."

Art

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"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."

Marriage

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John Updike
"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."

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"That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds."

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"From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few."

Society

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