"When I remember my family, I always remember……" — John Cheever
"When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places."
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75 Quotes by John Cheever
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- It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
- Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
- All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger…
- The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
- I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
- For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has…
- That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.
- I was born into no true class and it was my decision early in life to insinuate myself into the…
- I love you not for the person you are, but for your possibilities.
- I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the…
- You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore.
- The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is…