"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."
― John Updike
Topic(s):
Marriage
More From John Updike
- "Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
- "The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion."
- "Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day’s progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper."
More In Marriage
- "Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays."― Henny Youngman
- "I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don’t know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way."― Elizabeth Edwards
- "Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does."― Groucho Marx