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John Updike Quotes: What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?
         

What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?


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The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.



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Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.



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