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Quote by John Updike
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples patience. – John Updike

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike

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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike

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I have not the smarts or patience for political office. – Henry Rollins

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He that can have patience can have what he will. – Benjamin Franklin

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The very important thing you should have is patience. – Jack Ma

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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. – Barbara Johnson

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Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war. – John Foster Dulles

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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty. – Lillian Hellman

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Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? – Mary Oliver

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