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Man Quotes by John Cheever
- ...the sounds next door served as a kind of trip wire: I seemed to stumble and fall on my face, skinning and bruising myself here…
- A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge…
- The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost man. One would…
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