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From Quotes by John Cheever
- The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
- 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…
- 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…
- These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light,…
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