| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 62638 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John Updike (b. 1932), U.S. author, critic. A Foreword for Younger Readers, Assorted Prose (1965). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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