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Life Quotes by John Cheever
- 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 was born into no true class and it was my decision early in life to insinuate myself into the middle class like a spy…
- We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty…
- I have always been the lover - never the beloved - and I have spent much of my life waiting for trains, planes, boats, footsteps,…
- If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill…
- She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world,…
- I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle