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John Updike Quotes: You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure.
         

You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure.


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Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.



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The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.



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It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.



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So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.





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