John Updike | patience
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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John Updike | morning
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day’s progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
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John Updike | marriage
That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
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John Updike | leadership
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.
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John Updike | home
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
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John Updike | government
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
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