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Sense Quotes by John Cheever
- The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
- ...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…
- I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey
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