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Off Quotes by John Updike
- Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.
- I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled…
- There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.
- 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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