John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic
Rabbit is Rich (1981)
“See, you get caught up in the past and you become useless to the present.”
— Brent Weeks, book The Way of Shadows
Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 18 (p. 144)
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