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  1. John Updike _ The Centaur

    Последното, което човек може да направи, е да отиде на разстрел поне на собствените си два крака.
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  2. John Updike _ The Centaur

    Човек рано остарява, но ум късно му идва.
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  3. John Updike _ The Centaur

    Жизнь - ад, но этот ад прекрасен.
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  4. John Updike _ The Centaur

    ...Without death, now, there couldn't be life. Health," he said with a little smiling roll of his lower lip, "is an animal condition. Now most of our ill-health comes from two places-the brain and the back. We made two mistakes; one was to stand up and the other was to start thinking. It strains the spine and the nerves. It makes tension and the brain makes the body.
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  5. John Updike _ The Centaur

    The brontosaurus had thirty-ton body and a two-ounce brain. The anatosaurus had two thousand teeth. Triceratops had a helmet of filled bone seven feet long. Tyrannosaurus rex had tiny arms and teeth like six-inch razors and it was elected President. It ate everything-dead meat, living meat, old bones-
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  6. John Updike _ The Centaur

    ...I glance around at the nest we have made, at the floorboards polished by our bare feet, at the continents of stain on the ceiling like an old and all-wrong discoverer's map, at the earnestly bloated canvases I conscientiously cover with great streaks straining to say what even I am begining to suspect is the unsayable thing, and I grow frightened.
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