"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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Source : Assorted Prose (1965) "Confessions of a Wild Bore"

John Updike

#Inspirational Quotes #Patience Quotes #Years Quotes

“To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.”
“God preserve us! If men knew what is done in secret, no one would be free from the interference of others.”
“Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it”

Source : Speech to the Council for National Policy, June 1997.
“My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot, from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' - Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can still beat Mike Tyson on 'Punch Out.'”
“Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area.”
“On the set I make jokes I can't get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it light.”
“That the things that have impacted me most are not news articles written by older people that I would have no relation to; the things that impact me most are things written by people closer to my age. And I wanted to write things in a way where somebody my age could read it and feel like they are holding somebody's hand and be with somebody.”
“Dating has taught me what I want and don't want, who I am, and who I want to be.”

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