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Men 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 sounds next door served as a kind of trip wire: I seemed to stumble and fall on my face, skinning and bruising myself here…
- The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to…
- Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find…
- Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics.
- For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of…
- 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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