The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
John UpdikeIt is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.
John UpdikeSuddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.
John UpdikeAmong the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?
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