John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic
Too Far To Go, foreword (1979)
“A man’s friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage—but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.”
— Samuel Butler, book The Way of All Flesh
Source: The Way of All Flesh (1903), Ch. 75
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