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"Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash."
"To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while."
"In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers."
"Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest."
"She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him."
Explore more quotes by John Updike
"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."
"Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went."
"The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images that tug it as it were to one side does self-consciousness dissolve and sleep with its healing, brilliantly detailed fictions pour in upon the jittery spirit. Falling asleep is a study in trust. Likewise, religion tries to put as ease with the world. Being human cannot be borne alone. We need other presences. We need soft night noises-a mother speaking downstairs. We need the little clicks and sighs of a sustaining otherness. We need the gods."
"Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness."
"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."
"I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest."
"For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities."
"If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money."
"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."
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