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John Updike · Marriage

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Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

Sports

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Government

John Updike

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

Religion

John Updike

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 an education.

Education