John Updike Quote

Without death, now, there couldn’t be life. Health, he said with a little smiling roll of his lower lip, is an animal condition. Now most of our ill-health comes from two places-the brain and the back. We made two mistakes; one was to stand up and the other was to start thinking. It strains the spine and the nerves. It makes tension and the brain makes the body.

John Updike

Without death, now, there couldn’t be life. Health, he said with a little smiling roll of his lower lip, is an animal condition. Now most of our ill-health comes from two places-the brain and the back. We made two mistakes; one was to stand up and the other was to start thinking. It strains the spine and the nerves. It makes tension and the brain makes the body.

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