He learned this much selling cars: offer the customer something he doesn't want, to make what he half-wants look better. - John Updike

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He learned this much selling cars: offer the customer something he doesn't want, to make what he half-wants look better.

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About John Updike

John Hoyer Updike (18 March 1932 – 27 January 2009) was an American novelist, poet, critic and short-story writer.

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