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John Cheever quotes

American Writer May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982

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John Cheever quote: "the moral bottom had dropped out of my world without changing..."
the moral bottom had dropped out of my world without changing a mote of sunlight. John Cheever
John Cheever quote: "Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things,..."
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego. John Cheever
For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better. John Cheever
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. John Cheever
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. John Cheever
Will you let me lift you?" he said. "Just let me lift you. Just let me see how light you are." "All right," she said. "Do you want me to take off my coat?"Yes, yes, yes," he said. "Take off your coat."She stood. She let her coat fall to the sofa."Can I do it now?" he said."Yes."He put his hands under her arms. He raised her off the floor and then put her down gently. "Oh you're so light!" he shouted. "Your'e so light, you're so fragile, you don't weigh any more than a suitcase. Why, I could... John Cheever
John Cheever quote: "I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss -..."
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone. John Cheever
John Cheever quote: "I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you..."
I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone. John Cheever
John Cheever quote: "Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the..."
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. John Cheever
John Cheever quote: "Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits..."
Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains. John Cheever
John Cheever quote: "Then it is dark. It is a night when kings in golden suits..."
Then it is dark. It is a night when kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains. John Cheever
There was some faint coughing, a moan, and then a man spoke. "Are you all right, darling?" he asked. "Yes," a woman said wearily. "Yes, I'm all right, I guess," and then she added with great feeling, "But you know, Charlie, I don't feel like myself anymore. Sometimes there are about fifteen or twenty minutes in the week when I feel like myself. I don't like to go to another doctor, because the doctor's bills are so awful already, but I just don't feel like myself, Charlie. I just never feel... John Cheever
Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside. John Cheever
Weeding the peony hedge I hear the windfalls in the orchard; hear them strike the ground, hear them strike against branches as they fall to the ground. The immemorial smell of apples, old as the sea. Mary makes jelly. Up from the kitchen, up the stairs and into all the rooms comes the smell of apples. John Cheever
John Cheever quote: "People look for morals in fiction because there has always..."
People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy. John Cheever

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