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Inspirational Quotes by John Cheever
- It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
- I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
- You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore.
- Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.
- Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
- Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death.
- Never eat a heavily sugared doughnut before you go on TV.
- I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey
- I was here on earth because I chose to be.
- I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.
- Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento