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The first breathe of adultery is the freest.
John Updike
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John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
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Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me I don't know how they do it.
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
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Fraud makes the world go round.
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irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.
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