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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Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. – John Updike

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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – John Updike

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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. – John Updike

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I think Gods really blessed me with patience. Im good with a lot of things going on at once. – Niki Taylor

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Bear patiently with a rival. – Ovid

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Because Im the author of my screenplays I know what Im looking for. Its true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but its also a question of working with patience and love. – Michael Haneke

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience. – Paul Boese

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