Alarms Quote by John Cheever

“How can a people who do not mean to understand death hope to understand love, and who will sound the alarm?”

John Cheever

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For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.

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“I dream that someone in space says to me: So let us rush, then, to see the world. It is shaped like an egg, covered with seas and continents, warmed and lighted by the sun. It has churches of indescribable beauty, raised to gods that have never been seen; cities whose distant roofs and smokestacks will make your heart leap;…

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I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.

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Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the…

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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…

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One would never have guessed that the world had such a capacity for genuine grief. The most we can do is exploit our memories…

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“His stepmother -wearing a nightgown for comfort and a flowered hat for looks- had spent her days sitting in their parlor window in Baltimore…

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Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world.…

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I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp.

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I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away.

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Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold indifference; but an inhabitant of the remoter parts of the kingdom is immediately distinguished by a kind of dissipated curiosity, a busy endeavour to divide his attention amongst a thousand objects, and a wild confusion…

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