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John Cheever Quotes & Sayings
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25 entries tagged including 12 subtopics.
Last updated Apr 2024
John Cheever Topics
Art
Grief
Poetry
Wisdom
Nature
Cities
History
Writers
Joy
Relationships
Loneliness
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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 of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind
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The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
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A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.
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I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another's river views.
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Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
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When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
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What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.
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The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
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The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
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The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
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That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.
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People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.
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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 world.
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I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
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I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
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Homesickness is nothing Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
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Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
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Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
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Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.
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