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John Updike on Wedding

1932–2009 United States

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6 quotes

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Couples (1968)

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

Couples (1968)

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

When you're retired, you get into your routines and other people, even so-called loved ones, become a strain.

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

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

[Nelson] "...I get none of the things a man's supposed to get from a wife."

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Updike (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.