John Updike
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.
One of the cool, chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant, of a teacher and a learner.
<< Robert R Updegraff Leon Uris >>

