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John Updike

  • Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?
    (topic: atheism)


  • Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
    (topic: dreams)


  • Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
    (topic: weather)