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In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill

The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist.

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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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One of the cool, chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.

- John Updike | Canada and Canadians Quotes

The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

- John Updike | Humour and Humorists Quotes

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant, of a teacher and a learner.

- John Updike | Marriage Quotes

Mozart's music gives us permission to live.

- John Updike | Music Quotes

Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.

- John Updike | Travel and Travellers Quotes

We are most alive when we're in love.

- John Updike | Life Quotes

We are most alive when we're in love.

- John Updike | Lighten up Quotes

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

- John Updike | Sex Quotes