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John Cheever Quotes

Her passion for independence had reached into her manipulation of their joint checking account Picture Quote #1

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong Picture Quote #1

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction Picture Quote #1

Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair Picture Quote #1

Art is the triumph over chaos Picture Quote #1

Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains Picture Quote #1

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When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places Picture Quote #1

Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts Picture Quote #1

It is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of love and friendship Picture Quote #1

The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the crux of drugs Picture Quote #1

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power Picture Quote #1

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one’s life and discover one’s usefulness Picture Quote #1

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The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable Picture Quote #1

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy Picture Quote #1

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world Picture Quote #1

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego Picture Quote #1

The secret of keeping young is to read children’s books. You read the books they write for little children and you’ll keep young. You read novels, philosophy, stuff like that and it makes you feel old Picture Quote #1

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time Picture Quote #1

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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty Picture Quote #1

I don’t like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers Picture Quote #1

A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies Picture Quote #1

I’ve been homesick for countries I’ve never been, and longed to be where I couldn’t be Picture Quote #1

Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside Picture Quote #1

Homesickness is... absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time... You don’t really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don’t have, or haven’t been able to find Picture Quote #1

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When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand Picture Quote #1

For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better Picture Quote #1

The constants that I look for are a love of light and a determination to trace some moral chain of being Picture Quote #1

How can a people who do not mean to understand death hope to understand love, and who will sound the alarm? Picture Quote #1

She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world, because her desperate and empty life was not an overture but an ending, and through it all she could see was the rough, brutal shape of a coffin Picture Quote #1

I was born into no true class and it was my decision early in life to insinuate myself into the middle class like a spy so that I would have an advantageous position of attack, but I seem now and then to have forgotten my mission, and to have taken my disguises too seriously Picture Quote #1

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Her passion for independence had reached into her manipulation of their joint checking account (John Cheever Quotes) It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong (John Cheever Quotes) Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction (John Cheever Quotes) Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair (John Cheever Quotes) Art is the triumph over chaos (John Cheever Quotes) Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains (John Cheever Quotes) When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places (John Cheever Quotes) Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts (John Cheever Quotes) It is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of love and friendship (John Cheever Quotes) The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the crux of drugs (John Cheever Quotes) What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power (John Cheever Quotes) The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one’s life and discover one’s usefulness (John Cheever Quotes) The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable (John Cheever Quotes) People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy (John Cheever Quotes) Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world (John Cheever Quotes) Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego (John Cheever Quotes) The secret of keeping young is to read children’s books. You read the books they write for little children and you’ll keep young. You read novels, philosophy, stuff like that and it makes you feel old (John Cheever Quotes) Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time (John Cheever Quotes) For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty (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) A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies (John Cheever Quotes) I’ve been homesick for countries I’ve never been, and longed to be where I couldn’t be (John Cheever Quotes) Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside (John Cheever Quotes) Homesickness is... absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time... You don’t really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don’t have, or haven’t been able to find (John Cheever Quotes) When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand (John Cheever Quotes) For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better (John Cheever Quotes) The constants that I look for are a love of light and a determination to trace some moral chain of being (John Cheever Quotes) How can a people who do not mean to understand death hope to understand love, and who will sound the alarm? (John Cheever Quotes) She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world, because her desperate and empty life was not an overture but an ending, and through it all she could see was the rough, brutal shape of a coffin (John Cheever Quotes) I was born into no true class and it was my decision early in life to insinuate myself into the middle class like a spy so that I would have an advantageous position of attack, but I seem now and then to have forgotten my mission, and to have taken my disguises too seriously (John Cheever Quotes)

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