6 Quotes by John Updike about men

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    Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

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    Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

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    It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.

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    There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

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    What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.

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    All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.

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