• 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
  American writer and criticus 1932-2009
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. speaking
2. children
3. machines
4. earning
5. eating
6. money

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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. by : John Updike

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