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John Updike
: A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
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I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance — that there are a great many people in the world who are just as clever as you are. You learn to put your trust, by and by, in an economy and frugality of the exercise of your powers, both moral and intellectual; and you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
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To be adult is to be alone.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
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A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.
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A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
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Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
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I believe a man is born first unto himself --for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.
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There is little to envy in the woman's position either. For perhaps the first time in history, she has a general sense of herself as an individual apart from men. This self-confidence gives her drive and makes her want to succeed. As a result she is eager to join the system. She does not have a clear idea of what it will do to her. Her focus is on her own past and on what men did to women - not on the male structure and what it does to men.
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Boring people are a reflection of boring people.
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Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.
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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
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Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
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Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
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Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
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Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
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