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"If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money"

- John Updike

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This quote is written / told by John Updike between March 18, 1932 and January 27, 2009. He/she was a famous Novelist from USA. The author also have 45 other quotes.

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