His Usefulness Quotes by John Cheever

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• It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
• Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
• All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
• The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
• I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
• For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power…
• That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.
• I was born into no true class and it was my decision early in life to insinuate myself into the middle class…
• I love you not for the person you are, but for your possibilities.
• I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey,…
• You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore.
• The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.

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