The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.John Updike
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
John Updike
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
John Updike
How do you write women so well I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.
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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.
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Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
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