If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.


A Foreword for Younger Readers, Assorted Prose (1965)

John Updike Quotes

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.