Spirituality Quotes by Adam Begley

“The Christian Roommates” is not one of Updike’s best stories.”

— 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.”

— Adam Begley

“Updike “describes to no purpose.”

— Adam Begley

“We forget most of our past but embody all of it.”

— 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…

— Adam Begley

“The blatancy of the icy-hearted satire repelled me.”

— Adam Begley

“people don’t entertain you, / Nature will”—is”

— 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…

— Adam Begley

“Updike quashed the voice of his conscience, while at the same time clinging to a “me-first Salvationism.”

— Adam Begley

“the students with their clear skin and shining eyes and inviting innocence, like a blank surface one wishes to scribble obscenities on.”

— Adam Begley