John Updike
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“Man is an animal, but a social animal. Society for its manifold blessings asks in exchange sacrifice and compromise. Concession is the world’s walking gait. Fevers and hallucinations sweep over us, it is true; but be they permitted to infect the public body, slaughter shall result. Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its… Continue reading
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Perfectionism
“Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.” ~ John Updike, March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009 Continue reading
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Children
The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you. – John Updike Continue reading
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Rain Is Grace
John Updike Novelist Born: March 18, 1932 – Died: January 27, 2009 Continue reading
A Pondering Mind 
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