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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."
"I have a long track record of really horrible relationships and a divorce behind me; so I'm not the guy to ask. I just got really fortunate with this one."
"Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest."
"Being divorced does not necessarily make one's advice on marriage useless - or useful."
"I'm old, but I'm still cute and strong. And very butch."
Explore more quotes by John Updike
"When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas."
"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."
"The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect."
"Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness."
"On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence."
"In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self as the window on the world that we can't bear to thinkof shutting. My mind when I was a boy of ten or eleven sent up its silent scream at the thought of future aeons -- at the thought of the cosmic party going on without me. The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise of the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience."
"In my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it."
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