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John Updike

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[Thelma] "...We're too old to keep being foolish."

 
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I can't play games. I have friends, older women, who tell me I'm foolish to let Roman know how deeply I care about him. They tell me all sorts of things like "keep a man guessing", "men become bored with too much devotion". They tell me I am being foolish. Well, foolish I am.

 
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[Thelma] "...You make your own punishments in life, I honest to God believe that. You get exactly what you deserve. God sees to it."

 
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[Harry, to Thelma, about Janet] "She never really figured out how the world is put together but she's still working at it."

 
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I speak "with absolute certainty" only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their belief as I have, would be very credulous and foolish to accept it on blind faith. Nor does the writer believe any more than her correspondent and his friends in any "authority" let alone "divine revelation"!

 
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"Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce— a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools."

 
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