John Cheever Quotes - Page 4

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

  John Cheever

  Dog, Children, Men

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• Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of a tenement doorway on a rainy day, for her countenance was long, vacant, and weakly lighted, a passage for the gentle transports and miseries of the poor.

  John Cheever

  Husband, Dark, Rainy Day

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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• How can we describe the most exalted experience of our physical lives [sex], as if-jack, wrench, hubcap, and nuts-we were describing the changing of a flat tire?

  John Cheever

  Sex, Nuts, Tire

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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• A page of good prose remains invincible.

  John Cheever

  Pages, Invincible, Prose

  "The Stories of John Cheever". Book by John Cheever, www.theguardian.com. 1978.

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• I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.

  John Cheever

  Energy, Fur, Coats

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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• At my back I hear the word-"homosexual"-and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that creates this terrifying erotic chaos. Information, a crumb of information, seems to light the world.

  John Cheever

  Ignorance, Light, Two

  "The Journals of John Cheever" by Robert Gottlieb, 1966.

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• I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey

  John Cheever

  Writing, Blake, Make Sense

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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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