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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
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Quincy
Massachusetts
John William Cheever
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Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all.
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Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
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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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The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.
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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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Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death.
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Art is the triumph over chaos.
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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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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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The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of us.
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Then it is dark it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.
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Fiction is experimentation when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
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A page of good prose remains invincible.
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Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair.
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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 look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever I can lay my shaking hands on.
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The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.
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The short story is the literature of the nomad.
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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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All things of the sea belong to Venus pearls and shells and alchemists' gold and kelp and the riggish smell of neap tides, the inshore green, and purple further out and the joy of distances and the roar of falling masonry, all these are hers, but she doesn't come out of the sea for all of us.
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