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A&P: Lust in the Aisles QUOTES

A&P: Lust in the Aisles QUOTES

1 " But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it. "

― John Updike , A&P: Lust in the Aisles

2 " If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem. "

― John Updike , A&P: Lust in the Aisles

3 " The little trees, the sapling sugar maples and the baby red oaks squatting close to the ground, were the first to turn, as if green were a feat of strength, and the smallest weaken first.

Early in October, the Virginia creeper had suddenly drenched in alizarin crimson the tumbled boulder wall at the back of her property, where the bog began; the drooping parallel daggers of the sumac then showed a red suffused with orange.

Like the slow sound of a great gong, yellow overspread the woods, from the tan of beech and ash to the hickory’s spotty gold and the Hat butter color of the mitten-shaped leaves of the sassafras, mitten that can have a thumb or two or none. "

― John Updike , A&P: Lust in the Aisles