"Rabbit Is Rich" Quotes
"Rabbit Is Rich" by John Updike follows Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom as he navigates middle age, newfound wealth, and familial challenges in 1970s America.
fiction | 544 pages | Published in 2010
Quotes
The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.
The truth is, life is boring.
Life is a dreary continuum made bearable by those moments of excitement.
People can’t change, they can just be better or worse.
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
The world is full of interesting people who have nothing to say.
If you have the guts to be yourself, other people’ll pay your price.
The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to know where you're going before you get there.
Death makes us all innocent and weaves its clean cold magic as the last breath leaves us.
The world doesn’t care about you unless you’re doing something that matters.