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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

John Updike
Space, Religion, Stories
John Updike (2009). “More Matter: Essays and Criticism”, p.185, Random House

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

John Updike
Jobs, Religion, Literature
John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.228, Random House

In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.

John Updike
Religion, Church, Weekdays

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