#adultery

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop. ↗

— John Updike

#after #breath #constraints #develop #first

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. ↗

— John Cheever

#american #american writer #ball #ceremony #describe

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#came #concepts #correct #devices #early

He looks at Norris, exasperated. He seems to think that with eloquence, with sincerity, with frankness, he can change what is happening. The whole court has seen him slobbering over the queen. How could he expect to go shopping with his eyes, and finger the goods no doubt, and not have an account to settle at the end of it? ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#humour #change

No adultery is bloodless. ↗

— Natalia Ginzburg

#bloodless

Infants have their infancy; adults, adultery. ↗

— David P. Barash

#faithfulness #faith