The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own … - John Updike

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The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

John Updike

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About John Updike

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

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Life. Too much of it, and not enough. The fear that it will end some day, and the fear that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.