Admite the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the lord. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
There isn't a king or a merchant prince in the whole world that I envy, for I always knew I was born… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Homesickness is . . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. . .… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Who reads short stories? one is asked, and I like to think that they are read by men and women in the… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
The world that was not mine yesterday now lies spread out at my feet, a splendor. I seem, in the middle of… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
At my back I hear the word-"homosexual"-and it seems to split my world in two… It is ignorance, our ignorance of one… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost man. One… — John Cheever Copy Share
“She perceived vaguely the pitiful corruption of the adult world; how cruel and frail it was, like a worn piece of burlap, patched with… — John Cheever Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“I dream that someone in space says to me: So let us rush, then, to see the world. It is shaped like an egg,… — John Cheever Copy Share
I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers. — John Cheever Copy Share
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the… — John Cheever Copy Share
At my back I hear the word-"homosexual"-and it seems to split my world in two… It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that… — John Cheever Copy Share
One would never have guessed that the world had such a capacity for genuine grief. The most we can do is exploit our memories… — John Cheever Copy Share
“His stepmother -wearing a nightgown for comfort and a flowered hat for looks- had spent her days sitting in their parlor window in Baltimore… — John Cheever Copy Share
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world.… — John Cheever Copy Share
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. — John Cheever Copy Share
“There was some faint coughing, a moan, and then a man spoke. "Are you all right, darling?" he asked. "Yes," a woman said wearily.… — John Cheever Copy Share
“It was one of those midsummer Sundays when everyone sits around saying, "I drank too much last night." You might have heard it whispered… — John Cheever Copy Share
