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“Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.”
― John Updike, A Month of Sundays

“If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.”
― John Updike, Rabbit, Run

“We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.”
― John Updike

“How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?”
― John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich

“What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.”
― John Updike

“If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.”
― John Updike, A&P: Lust in the Aisles

“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”
― John Updike

“Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.”
― John Updike, Self-Consciousness

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories

“Where are we really going? Always home.”
― Novalis

“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
― Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon