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John Updike on Religion

1932–2009 United States

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

Introduction to The Best American Short Stories of 1984 (1984)

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

Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989)

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