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John Updike: Promises, Promises
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In her memoir, A Backward Glance, Edith Wharton speaks of the advantages of not being considered promising. It was better, she thought, at least in her own case, “to fight my way to expression through a thick fog of indifference.”
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Joseph Epstein is a regular contributor to COMMENTARY.
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