Quotes from Rabbit, Run — John Updike
1932–2009 United States
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The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
Rabbit, Run (1960)
The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you're going before you go there.
Rabbit, Run (1960)
As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world...
Rabbit, Run (1960)
The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks.
Rabbit, Run (1960)