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> [“Even more than black death he dreaded the gaudy gate: the mask of sweet red rubber, the violet overhead lights, the rattling ride through washed corridors, the steaming, breathing, percolating apparatus, basins of pink sterilizer, the firm straps binding every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-begley/even-more-than-black-death-he-dreaded-the-gaudy-gate-the-mask-of/)

[Adam Begley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-begley/)

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## More by Adam Begley

> [“The Christian Roommates” is not one of Updike’s best stories.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-begley/the-christian-roommates-is-not-one-of-updike-s-best-stories/)

[Adam Begley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-begley/)

> [“White encouraged Updike’s equally scrupulous commitment. They bonded over dashes, colons, and commas—most amazingly in an exchange of letters in the last two months…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-begley/white-encouraged-updike-s-equally-scrupulous-commitment-they-bonded/)

[Adam Begley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-begley/)

> [“I scuttled without a shell, between houses and wives, a snake between skins, a monster of selfishness, my grotesque needs naked and pink.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-begley/i-scuttled-without-a-shell-between-houses-and-wives-a-snake-between/)

[Adam Begley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-begley/)

> [“Even more than black death he dreaded the gaudy gate: the mask of sweet red rubber, the violet overhead lights, the rattling ride through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-begley/even-more-than-black-death-he-dreaded-the-gaudy-gate-the-mask-of/)

[Adam Begley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-begley/)

> [“Updike “describes to no purpose.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-begley/updike-describes-to-no-purpose/)

[Adam Begley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-begley/)

> [“We forget most of our past but embody all of it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-begley/we-forget-most-of-our-past-but-embody-all-of-it/)

[Adam Begley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-begley/)

> [ “\[A\]s Norman Mailer pointed out decades ago, and Philip Roth not long afterwards, niceness is the enemy. Every soft stroke from society is like… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-begley/a-s-norman-mailer-pointed-out-decades-ago-and-philip-roth-not-long/)

[Adam Begley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-begley/)

> [“The blatancy of the icy-hearted satire repelled me.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-begley/the-blatancy-of-the-icy-hearted-satire-repelled-me/)

[Adam Begley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-begley/)

> [“people don’t entertain you, / Nature will”—is”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-begley/people-don-t-entertain-you-nature-will-is/)

[Adam Begley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-begley/)

> [“I read and talked into the microphone and was gracious to the local rich, the English faculty and the college president, and the students…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-begley/i-read-and-talked-into-the-microphone-and-was-gracious-to-the-local/)

[Adam Begley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-begley/)

> [“Updike quashed the voice of his conscience, while at the same time clinging to a “me-first Salvationism.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-begley/updike-quashed-the-voice-of-his-conscience-while-at-the-same-time/)

[Adam Begley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-begley/)

> [“the students with their clear skin and shining eyes and inviting innocence, like a blank surface one wishes to scribble obscenities on.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-begley/the-students-with-their-clear-skin-and-shining-eyes-and-inviting/)

[Adam Begley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-begley/)

> [“the “human need for transcendence should be met with minimal embarrassments to reason,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-begley/the-human-need-for-transcendence-should-be-met-with-minimal/)

[Adam Begley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-begley/)

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