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Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then retur

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. – John Updike

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It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. – John Updike

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

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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. – John Updike

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And I, I took the road less traveled by. I was using a GPS system. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. – Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media

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I dont like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that, life is actually pretty good. – Whoopi Goldberg

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