# Quote — John Updike, Rabbit Redux

> All men are boys time is trying to outsmart.

- Author: [John Updike](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-updike.md)
- Book: [Rabbit Redux](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-updike/rabbit-redux.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Updike#Rabbit_Redux_(1969)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-updike/rabbit-redux/all-men-are

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> 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.

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> Like water, blood must run or grow scum.

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

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