# Quote — John Updike, Rabbit at Rest

> [Pru] "...He's still trying to work out what you two did to him, as if you were the only parents in the world who didn't keep wiping their kid's ass until he was thirty. I tell him: Get real, Nelson. Lousy parents are par for the course. My God. Nothing's ideal."

- Author: [John Updike](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-updike.md)
- Book: [Rabbit at Rest](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-updike/rabbit-at-rest.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-updike/rabbit-at-rest/pru-hes-still

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> He could have gone over that night and faced the music but how much music is a man supposed to face?

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> The smell of good advice always makes Rabbit want to run the other way.

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