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“In a few minutes he will be at the bus terminal and once again join that great mass of the deserving, those countless others awaiting miracles.” - p. 153

“Had John Updike been African, he would’ve won the Nobel Prize twenty years ago. I feel sure that his material hobbled him. Shillington, Pennsylvania, simply did not measure up to his extravagant gifts.” - p. 66