Called Updike

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“Less than five hundred souls inhabit the three quaint streets and the few narrow by-lanes and scattered farmsteads that constitute this small, decaying watering-place which may, indeed, be called a “backwater of life” without disrespect to its natives who possess, to this day, a salty individuality of their own.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

“Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)