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 It's often seemed to me that Shakespeare might well have been a simply brilliant editor as well as a beyond-extraordinary writer