Quotes from book
Rabbit Redux

Name: Rabbit Redux
Author: John Updike

Rabbit Redux is a 1971 novel by John Updike. It is the second book in his "Rabbit" series, beginning with Rabbit, Run and followed by Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit At Rest, published from 1960 to 1990, and the related 2001 novella, Rabbit Remembered.

“Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.”

John Updike book Rabbit Redux

Rabbit Redux (1969)

“We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything”

John Updike book Rabbit Redux

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“That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.”

John Updike book Rabbit Redux

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“Freedom, that he always thought was outward motion, turns out to be this inward dwindling.”

John Updike book Rabbit Redux

Rabbit Redux (1969)

“All men are boys time is trying to outsmart.”

John Updike book Rabbit Redux

Rabbit Redux (1969)

“Any decent kind of world, you wouldn't need all these rules.”

John Updike book Rabbit Redux

Rabbit Redux (1969)

“Like water, blood must run or grow scum.”

John Updike book Rabbit Redux

Rabbit Redux (1969)

“Thirty-six years old and he knows less than when he started. With the difference that now he knows how little he'll always know.”

John Updike book Rabbit Redux

Rabbit Redux (1969)

“Halfway isn't all the way, but it's better than no way.”

John Updike book Rabbit Redux

Rabbit Redux (1969)

“There was a beauty here, refined from country pastures, a game of solitariness, of waiting, waiting for the pitcher to complete his gaze toward first base and throw his lightning, a game whose very taste, of spit and dust and grass and sweat and leather and sun, was America.”

John Updike book Rabbit Redux

Rabbit Redux (1969)

“You are cynical.”

John Updike book Rabbit Redux

"Just middle-aged. Ideas used to grab me too. It's not that you get better ideas, the old ones just get tired. After a while, you see that even dollars and cents are just an idea. Finally the only thing that matters is putting some turds in the toilet bowl once a day. They stay real, somehow. Somebody came up to me and said, 'I'm God,' I'd say, 'Show me your badge.'"
Rabbit Redux (1969)

“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.