# Quote — John Hoyer Updike, Couples

> An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

- Author: [John Hoyer Updike](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike.md)
- Book: [Couples](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/couples.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Updike#Couples_(1968)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/couples/an-affair-wants
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## More from this book

> The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/couples/the-first-breath.md)

Topics: [marriage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md)

> By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/couples/by-the-time.md)

Topics: [separation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/separation.md)

> Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/couples/sex-is-like.md)

Topics: [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md), [sex](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sex.md)