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John Cheever quotes about life

American Writer May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982

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John Cheever quote: "All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a..."
All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. John Cheever
Oh, what can you do with a man like that? What can you do? How can you dissuade his eye in a crowd from seeking out the cheek with acne, the infirm hand; how can you teach him to respond to the inestimable greatness of the race, the harsh surface beauty of life; how can you put his finger for him on the obdurate truths before which fear and horror are powerless? The sea that morning was iridescent and dark. My wife and my sister were swimming--Diana and Helen--and I saw their uncovered... John Cheever
You might say that he had lost the gift of evoking the perfumes of life: sea water, the smoke of burning hemlock, and the breasts of women. He had damaged, you might say, the ear's innermost chamber, where we hear the heavy noise of the dragon's tail moving over the dead leaves. John Cheever
She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world, because her desperate and empty life was not an overture but an ending, and through it all she could see was the rough, brutal shape of a coffin. John Cheever
Chicken began to cry then or seemed to cry, to weep or seemed to weep, until they heard the sound of a grown man weeping, an old man who slept on a charred mattress, whose life savings in tattoos had faded to a tracery of ash, whose crotch hair was sparse and gray, whose flesh hung slack on his bones, whose only trespass on life was a flat guitar and a remembered and pitiful air of "I don't know where it is, sir, but I'll find it, sir," and whose name was known nowhere, nowhere in the far... John Cheever
John Cheever quote: "I write to make sense of my life."-John Cheever, quoted in..."
I write to make sense of my life."-John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey John Cheever
John Cheever quote: "The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's..."
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness. John Cheever
John Cheever quote: "His life was not confined and the delight he took in this..."
His life was not confined and the delight he took in this observation could not be explained by its suggestion of escape. John Cheever

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