This life is the one to be lived now, that much is crystal-… - John Updike

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This life is the one to be lived now, that much is crystal-clear. What did Thoreau supposedly say — ‘One world at a time’?

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John Hoyer Updike (18 March 1932 – 27 January 2009) was an American novelist, poet, critic and short-story writer.

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"Driving is boring," Rabbit pontificates, "but it's what we do. Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went."

Any decent kind of world, you wouldn't need all these rules.

Make no mistake: if he rose at all
It was as His body;
If the cell’s dissolution did not reverse, the molecule reknit,
The amino acids rekindle,
The Church will fall.

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