"The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education."
-John Updike
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"Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.“
-John Updike
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"Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man."
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"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."
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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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