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Quotes by John Updike
- A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
- A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
- Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.
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