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Quotes from Rabbit Redux — John Updike

1932–2009 United States

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8 quotes

Freedom, that he always thought was outward motion, turns out to be this inward dwindling.

Rabbit Redux (1969)

All men are boys time is trying to outsmart.

Rabbit Redux (1969)

Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.

Rabbit Redux (1969)

Halfway isn't all the way, but it's better than no way.

Rabbit Redux (1969)

Like water, blood must run or grow scum.

Rabbit Redux (1969)

Any decent kind of world, you wouldn't need all these rules.

Rabbit Redux (1969)

Thirty-six years old and he knows less than when he started. With the difference that now he knows how little he'll always know.

Rabbit Redux (1969)

His insides are beginning to feel sickly. The pain of the world is a crater all these syrups and pills a thousandfold would fail to fill.

Rabbit Redux (1969)

Attribution

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