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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.
John Cheever
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John Cheever
Age: 70 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 27
Died: 1982
Died: June 18
Diarist
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Quincy
Massachusetts
John William Cheever
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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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Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman.
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How can we describe the most exalted experience of our physical lives [sex], as if-jack, wrench, hubcap, and nuts-we were describing the changing of a flat tire?
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I was born into no true class and it was my decision early in life to insinuate myself into the middle class like a spy so that I would have an advantageous position of attack, but I seem now and then to have forgotten my mission, and to have taken my disguises too seriously.
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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.
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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 not want as a reader a man who did not appreciate the finesse of a double play.
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The writer cultivates, extends, raises and inflates his imagination, sure that this is his destiny, his usefulness, his contribution to the understanding of good and evil. As he inflates his imagination he inflates his capacity for evil.
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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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I was here on earth because I chose to be.
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That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.
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Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death.
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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 dream.
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Fiction is experimentation when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
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I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp.
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Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
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Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.
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It is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death it is the lights and signs of love and friendship.
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I write to make sense of my life. -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey
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For these are not as they might seem to be, the ruins of our civilization, but are temporary encampment and outposts of the civilization that we - you and I - shall build.
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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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