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All the Colors of the Dark

by Chris Whitaker (Goodreads Author)

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James’s Quotes

“I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.”
― John Updike, Couples

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“Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.”
― John Updike

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

tags: humor, new-york-city

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“We are each of us like our little blue planet, hung in black space, upheld by nothing but our mutual reassurances, our loving lies.”
― John Updike, Rabbit at Rest

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“try to shorten the base paths in order to reach home plate faster and score. All you will have accomplished by that technique is to cheapen the value of a run.”
― Philip Roth, The Great American Novel

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