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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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another days progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. – John Updike

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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen. – John Updike

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Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. – John Updike

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My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop. – Paul Gleason

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There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance. – Cesar Chavez

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Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, thats a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel. – Ingrid Newkirk

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An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. – Dutch Proverb [Quoted in P.J. Harrebomée, Spreekwoordenboek der Nederlandsche t

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We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. – Winston Churchill

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If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks. – Brendan Behan

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. – Marya Mannes

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