John Cheever Quotes - Page 4

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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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• 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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• ...the sounds next door served as a kind of trip wire: I seemed to stumble and fall on my face, skinning and bruising myself here and there and scattering my emotional and intellectual possessions. There was no point in pretending that I had not fallen, for when we are stretched out in the dirt we must pick ourselves up and brush off our clothes. This then, in a sense, is what I did, reviewing my considered opinions on marriage, constancy, man's nature, and the importance of love. When I had picked up my possessions and repaired my appearance, I fell asleep.

  John Cheever

  Love, Fall, Men

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• The writer cultivates, extends, raises and inflates his imagination, sure that this is his destiny, his usefulness, his contribution to the understanding of good and evil. As he inflates his imagination he inflates his capacity for evil.

  John Cheever

  Destiny, Evil, Imagination

  "Going To The Tigers" by Robert Cohen, www.believermag.com. February 2010.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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