Being human cannot be borne alone. We need other presences. We need soft night noises — a mother speaking downstairs.
. . . We need the little clicks and sighs of a sustaining otherness. We need the gods.

John Updike

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John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more...

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