The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
John Updike
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More quotes by John Updike
- Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
- I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
- What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
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