Couples

Couples

Couples is a 1968 novel by American author John Updike.

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Famous quotes containing the word couples:

    “Could that old god rise up again
    We’d drink a can or two,
    And out and lay our leadership
    On country and on town,
    Throw likely couples into bed
    And knock the others down.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Attainment and science, retainment and art—the two couples keep to themselves, but when they do meet, nothing else in the world matters.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That’s not love, it’s just rubbish.”
    —Peter Shaffer (b. 1926)