John Cheever Quotes - Page 4

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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.

  John Cheever

  Men, Organization, Perfection

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• What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.

  John Cheever

  Writing, Nuclear, Roles

  "Home before Dark". Book by Susan Cheever, 1984.

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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.

  John Cheever

  Baseball, Men, Play

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• Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death.

  John Cheever

  Pain, Opium

  John Cheever (2010). “Falconer”, p.45, Vintage

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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.

  John Cheever

  Hands, Numbers, Bars

  John Cheever (2011). “The Journals”, p.112, Random House

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• We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty woman on our right who smells of apple blossoms. Our bowels stir and our cod itches and we amend our prayers for the spiritual life with the hope that it will not be too spiritual.

  John Cheever

  Spiritual, Prayer, Smell

  "The Journals of John Cheever" by Robert Gottlieb, 1956.

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• There isn't a king or a merchant prince in the whole world that I envy, for I always knew I was born to be a child of destiny and that I was never meant to wring my living from detestable, low, degrading, mean and ordinary kinds of business.

  John Cheever

  Kings, Children, Mean

  John Cheever (1973). “The Wapshot Chronicle”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

  John Cheever

  Way, Exit, Remember

  "Home before Dark Houghton Mifflin". Book by Susan Cheever, 1984.

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• Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics.

  John Cheever

  Dog, Children, Men

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• Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.

  John Cheever

  Writing, Kissing, Done

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• Now working is terribly painful and I'm still having a fight with the booze. I've enlisted the help of a doctor but it's touch and go. A day for me; a day for the hootch.

  John Cheever

  Fighting, Doctors, Helping

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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.

  John Cheever

  Civilization, Might, Ruins

  John Cheever (1961). “Some Peoples, Places, and Things that Will Not Appear in My Next Novel”, New York : Harper

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