# Quote — John Updike, Rabbit Remembered

> [Nelson, to Annabelle] "The misery of the world," he says, reaching into himself to overcome her resistance. "That's what I kept thinking during my group this morning – the pity of everything, all of us, these confused souls trying so pathetically hard to break out of the fog – to see through our compulsions, our needs as they chew us up..."

- Author: [John Updike](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-updike.md)
- Book: [Rabbit Remembered](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-updike/rabbit-remembered.md)
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> "Did Nelson ever tell you the story," Pru asks Annabelle, "how he lost the agency up his nose?"

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> His voice is hurrying, to keep up with his brain.

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> [Annabelle] "...health care is an expanding field, as the world fills up with people that would have been dead a hundred years ago. Everybody winds up needing care, pretty much."

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