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Been Quotes by John Cheever
- Homesickness is . . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. . . . You don't…
- 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.
- People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.
- I have always been the lover - never the beloved - and I have spent much of my life waiting for trains, planes, boats, footsteps,…
- I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.
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