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To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the… — John Updike

Autobiography and memoir

To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.

John Updike
Self-Consciousness · 1989
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War
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Autobiography and memoir
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1989
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John Updike
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Updike, John. Self-Consciousness: Memoirs. Alfred A. Knopf, 1989, ch. 4.

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