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John Cheever Quotes
«We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty woman on our right who smells of apple blossoms. Our bowels stir and our cod itches and we amend our prayers for the spiritual life with the hope that it will not be too spiritual.»
«Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.»
Author: John Cheever
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Wisdom
«I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss-you can't do it alone.»
Author: John Cheever
«The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.»
Author: John Cheever
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usefulness
«When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.»
«Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.»
Author: John Cheever
«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.»
Author: John Cheever
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Adriatic, bald, carpet, cleaner, cleaners, get around, Neapolitan, The Adriatic, veins
«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.»
«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.»
«I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.»
Author: John Cheever
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capricious