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Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.

Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.

John Updike
Life, Fall, Roller Coaster

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

John Updike
Life, Experience, Doe
"Self-Consciousness: Memoirs". Book by John Updike, 1989.

The world ... is full of people who never knew what hit 'em, their lives are over before they wake up.

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Life, People, Wake Up
John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Is Rich”, p.232, Random House

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

John Updike
Life, Rain, Sky

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

John Updike
Life, Faces, Fame
FaceBook post by John Updike from Dec 26, 2013

Our lives fade behind us before we die.

John Updike
Life, Behinds, Fades
John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Is Rich”, p.50, Random House

Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape.

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Life, Water, Hot

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

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Life, Smell, Failure In Life
John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Redux”, p.355, Random House

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end.

John Updike
Life, Games, Video

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

John Updike
Life, Yummy, Long

Life, too much of it, and not enough. The fear that it will end some day, and the fear that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.

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Life, Yesterday, Too Much
John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Is Rich”, p.400, Random House

Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.

John Updike
Life, Firsts, Grownups
John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Is Rich”, p.281, Random House

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.

John Updike
Life, Memories, Drama

As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.

John Updike
Life, Self, Years
John Updike (2012). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, p.3, Random House

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