# Rabbit Redux

- Author: [John Hoyer Updike](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike.md)
- Quotes: 8
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-redux
- JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-redux.json

## Quotes

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-redux/his-insides-are.md)

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

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-redux/freedom-that-he-always.md)

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

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-redux/thirty-six-years-old.md)

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

> All men are boys time is trying to outsmart.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-redux/all-men-are.md)

Topics: [time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time.md), [masculinity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-redux/halfway-isnt-all.md)

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

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-redux/any-decent-kind.md)

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

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-redux/there-was-a-beauty.md)

Topics: [America](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/america.md), [sport](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sport.md)

> Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/rabbit-redux/time-is-our.md)

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