19 Quotations by John Cheever
- 1. A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy ...
- 2. A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped ...
- 3. All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your lif ...
- 4. Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.
- 5. For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power t ...
- 6. He was a tall man with an astonishing and somehow elegant curvature of the spine, formed by an enlar ...
- 7. Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all t ...
- 8. I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss-you can't do it alone.
- 9. I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
- 10. It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
- 11. My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I ...
- 12. People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in madness and in saneness, they ...
- 13. Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers -- they seem to jeopardize all ou ...
- 14. Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers -- they seem to jeopardize all ou ...
- 15. The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi ...
- 16. The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, ...
- 17. The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she ...
- 18. We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across ...
- 19. Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.
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