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John Cheever Quotes
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That’s the way I remember them, heading for an exit (John Cheever Quotes)
I believe that writing is an account of the powers of extrication (John Cheever Quotes)
I love you not for the person you are, but for your possibilities (John Cheever Quotes)
A page of good prose remains invincible (John Cheever Quotes)
My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats (John Cheever Quotes)
I was here on earth because I chose to be (John Cheever Quotes)
You can’t expect to communicate with anyone if you’re a bore (John Cheever Quotes)
The short story is the literature of the nomad (John Cheever Quotes)
All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life (John Cheever Quotes)
I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss - you can’t do it alone (John Cheever Quotes)
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two (John Cheever Quotes)
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony (John Cheever Quotes)
I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another’s river views (John Cheever Quotes)
I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp (John Cheever Quotes)
Admite the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the lord (John Cheever Quotes)
The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another (John Cheever Quotes)
The world that was not mine yesterday now lies spread out at my feet, a splendor. I seem, in the middle of the night, to have returned to the world of apples, the orchards of Heaven. Perhaps I should take my problems to a shrink, or perhaps I should enjoy the apples that I have, streaked with color like the evening sky (John Cheever Quotes)
The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost man. One would not want as a reader a man who did not appreciate the finesse of a double play (John Cheever Quotes)
I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever I can lay my shaking hands on (John Cheever Quotes)
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two (John Cheever Quotes)
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two (John Cheever Quotes)
They were delivered to mansions remodeled into country clubs, boarding schools, retreats for the insane, alcohol cures, health farms, wildlife sanctuaries, wallpaper factories, drafting rooms and places where the aged and the infirm waited sniffily for the angel of death in front of their television sets. (John Cheever Quotes)
Falsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked. . .The telling of lies is a sort of sleight of hand that displays our deepest feelings about life. (John Cheever Quotes)
I don’t like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers. (John Cheever Quotes)
But now that she had made him her confidant, he saw that he could not change this relationship (John Cheever Quotes)
Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics (John Cheever Quotes)
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house (John Cheever Quotes)
I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind (John Cheever Quotes)
Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death (John Cheever Quotes)
There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor (John Cheever Quotes)