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“ From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. ”

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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.

~ John Updike

Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

~ John Updike

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

~ John Updike

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

~ John Updike