The Poorhouse Fair Quotes

“What I'm going to do is pry every stinking tag off these f.ing chairs and make a f.ing collar and throw that cat right in Connor's puked-up face. Pale turd.”
― John Updike, The Poorhouse Fair

“Lucas felt uncommonly depressed and careless. Drunkenness, in a man like August Hay, melts the restraints on cheerfulness. On the contrary with Lucas: he kept up courage consciously. Sap his mind, and the lid was lifted from a cesspool of muddy colors.”
― John Updike, The Poorhouse Fair

“Music affected him as women's talking did, when there was no interceding in it. He was an instructor, not a listener.”
― John Updike, The Poorhouse Fair

“I don't recall inclement weather on a fair day.”
― john updike, The Poorhouse Fair

“The old continue to be old-fashioned, though their youths were modern. We grow backward, aging into our father’s opinions and even into those of our grandfathers.”
― John Updike, The Poorhouse Fair