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“John Updike, in that book you gave me, he said the dead make space. Do you know what I think? Updike doesn't know dick about what it's like to be a homicide cop in Baltimore.”

Cop Baltimore Homicide Updike

Book:The Sugar House

Source: The Sugar House

“Maybe the dead are gods, there's certainly something kind about them, the way they give you room. What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand. The more dead you know it seems the more living there are you don't know.”

Ageing Rabbit Angstrom Updike

Author:John Updike

“I can handle it. I'm no addict, I'm a recreational killer." "Yeah" Harry says, "like Hitler was a recreational killer.”

Addiction Rabbit Angstrom Updike

Author:John Updike

“But now nuns have blended into everybody else or else faded away. Vocations drying up, nobody wants to be selfless anymore, everybody wants their fun.”

Rabbit Angstrom Updike

Book:Rabbit at Rest

Source: Rabbit at Rest

“A mood of stirred-up unsatisfied desire at whose fringes licks the depressing idea that nothing matters very much, we'll all soon be dead.”

Ageing Rabbit Angstrom Updike

Book:Rabbit at Rest

Source: Rabbit at Rest

“Ever since his heart attack there is a gnawing in his stomach whose cause he can't locate until he realizes it is the terror of being trapped inside his perishing body, like being in a prison cell with a madman who might decide to kill him at any moment”

Ageing Rabbit Angstrom Updike

Book:Rabbit at Rest

Source: Rabbit at Rest

“About being mortal- I suppose it affects different people in different ways, but for me there's never been a thinning out. Being alive, no matter how sick I feel, feels absolute. You're absolutely alive and when you're not you'll be absolutely something else.”

Rabbit Angstrom Updike

Book:Rabbit at Rest

Source: Rabbit at Rest

“..and of AIDS. The virus too small to imagine travelling through our fluids, even a drop or two of saliva or cunt slime, and unlocking our antibodies with its little picks, so that our insides lose their balance and we topple into pneumonia, into starvation. Love and death, they can't be pried apart anymore.”

Aids Virus Rabbit Angstrom Sexually Transmitted Diseases Updike

Book:Rabbit at Rest

Source: Rabbit at Rest