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Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts.
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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The world that was not mine yesterday now lies spread out at my feet, a splendor. I seem, in the middle of the night, to have returned to the world of apples, the orchards of Heaven. Perhaps I should take my problems to a shrink, or perhaps I should enjoy the apples that I have, streaked with color like the evening sky.
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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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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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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.
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The short story is the literature of the nomad.
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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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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 deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
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There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor.
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A page of good prose remains invincible.
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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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Falsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked. . .The telling of lies is a sort of sleight of hand that displays our deepest feelings about life.
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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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Art is the triumph over chaos.
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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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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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Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death.
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That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.
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I was here on earth because I chose to be.
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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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