Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. – John Updike
The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop. – John Updike
Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. – John Updike
The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop. – John Updike
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
It rots a writers brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily youre well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician. – John Updike
Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut — a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul. – Anzia Yezierska