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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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – John Updike

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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

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Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. – John Updike

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You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I dont know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it. – Adam Scott

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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. – Stanislaw Lec

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Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and its cowardice. – George Jackson

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The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. – Tokugawa Ieyasu

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