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We are most alive when we're in love.

We are most alive when we're in love.

John Updike
Love, Marriage, Alive

One of the nice things about having a lover, it makes you think about everything anew. The rest of your life becomes a kind of movie, flat and even rather funny.

John Updike
Love, Nice, Thinking
John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Redux”, p.51, Random House

In the vacuum of the heart love falls forever.

John Updike
Love, Fall, Heart
John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Is Rich”, p.305, Random House

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

John Updike
Love, Doe, World
FaceBook post by John Updike from Feb 08, 2015

Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.

John Updike
Love, Fashion, Mirrors
John Updike (2012). “Collected Poems, 1953-1993”, p.85, Knopf

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

John Updike
Love, Government, Leave Me Alone
John Updike's tstimony given before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor in Boston, Massachusetts, January 30, 1978.

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