“The pain of the world is a crater all these syrups and pills a thousandfold would fail to fill.”

—  John Updike , book Rabbit Redux

Rabbit Redux (1969)
Context: His insides are beginning to feel sickly. The pain of the world is a crater all these syrups and pills a thousandfold would fail to fill.

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American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, an… 1932–2009

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