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John Cheever quotes about people

American Writer May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982

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John Cheever quote: "The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we..."
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable. John Cheever
Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We have larger apples and better cotton and faster and more beautiful machines. This makes us the greatest country in the world. Unemployment is a myth. Dissatisfaction is a fable. In preparatory school America is beautiful. It is the gem of the ocean and it is too bad. It is bad because people believe it all. Because they become indifferent. Because they marry and... 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
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: "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
Long ago when they first invented the atomic bomb people used to worry about its going off and killing everybody, but they didn't know that mankind has enough dynamite right in his guts to tear the fucking plant to pieces. John Cheever

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