Famous quotes containing the words treatment and/or times:
“Jamess great gift, of course, was his ability to tell a plot in shimmering detail with such delicacy of treatment and such fine aloofnessthat is, reluctance to engage in any direct grappling with what, in the play or story, had actually taken placeMthat his listeners often did not, in the end, know what had, to put it in another way, gone on.”
—James Thurber (18941961)
“A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples patience.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)
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