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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.: John Updike (1932 - ), Assorted Prose (1965)
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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.: John Updike (1932 - ), Problems and Other Stories
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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.: John Updike (1932 - )
We are most alive when we're in love.: John Updike (1932 - )
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.: John Updike (1932 - )
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Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.: John Updike (1932 - )
Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.: John Updike (1932 - )

Results from Internet Collections: alt.quotations Archives:

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.: John Updike (1932 - ), Rabbit Redux

Results from Internet Collections: Quotations by Women:

If you talk enough, you don't feel you have to _do_ anything.: John Updike's mother

Results from Contributed Quotations:

the music was human; the static was natural.: John Updike (1932 - ), taken from James Gleik's CHAOS

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