# Rabbit Is Rich

- Author: [John Hoyer Updike](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike.md)
- Quotes: 6
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-is-rich
- JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-is-rich.json

## Quotes

> "Look, Nelson. Maybe I haven't done everything right in my life. I know I haven't. But I haven't committed the greatest sin. I haven't laid down and died."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-is-rich/look-nelson-maybe.md)

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

> You don’t stop caring, champ. You still care about that little girl whose underpants you saw in kindergarten. Once you care, you always care. That’s how stupid we are.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-is-rich/you-dont-stop.md)

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

> "The past is the past," Harry goes on, "you got to live in the present. … It's the only way to think. When you're my age, you'll see it. At my age if you carried all the misery you've seen on your back you'd never get up in the morning."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-is-rich/the-past-is-the.md)

Topics: [the past](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-past.md)

> College is a rip-off, the professors are teaching you stuff because they’re getting paid to do it, not because it does you any good. They don’t give a fuck about geography or whatever any more than you do. It’s all phony, they’re there because parents don’t want their kids around the house past a certain age and sending them to college makes them look good. ‘My little Johnny’s at Haavahd.’

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-is-rich/college-is-a-rip-off.md)

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

> The great thing about the dead, they make space.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-is-rich/the-great-thing.md)

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death.md)

> Women, once sex gets out in the open, they become monsters. You're a creep if you fuck them and a creep if you don't.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-is-rich/women-once-sex.md)

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