"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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"Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.“
-John Updike
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"Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency."
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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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"Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them."
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