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World Quotes by John Cheever
- Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
- Homesickness is . . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. . . . You don't…
- Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.
- Admite the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the lord.
- At my back I hear the word-"homosexual"-and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that creates…
- To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness,…
- Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous…
- Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We…
- The world that was not mine yesterday now lies spread out at my feet, a splendor. I seem, in the middle of the night, to…
- These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light,…
- Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice,…
- 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,…
- 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…
- One would never have guessed that the world had such a capacity for genuine grief. The most we can do is exploit our memories of…
More World Quotes
- I learned one most important thing in my life. That nonody in this whole world can understand you correctly. Except yourself. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Being a honest n nice person is most difficult thing in this world. As nobody likes the company of a person that… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- There is Nothing in this world. Which cannot be achieved. If you have the guts to do everything which it will take. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson