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Begin Quotes by John Updike
- What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter at around forty,…
- We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.
- But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.
- That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.
- Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works.
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