THE SENTENCE: JOHN UPDIKE
A line with deceptive punch from John Updike's short story "The Women Who Got Away":
If my wife held herself like a dancer, it was her lover's wife who in fact could dance, with a feathery nestling and lightness of fit that had an embarrassing erotic effect on me.
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quote "Ah, what larks: Rogue Riderhood, Bradley Headstone, Miss Ninetta Crummles (the Infant Phenomenon), Mr Dick, Barkis, Joe the Fat Boy, The Golden Dustman, Mr Wemmick's dad, Mrs Gummidge, Mr William Guppy, Jerry Cruncher, Bullseye, Harold Skimpole..."