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6 John Cheever Quotes

John Cheever delivers blunt, funny, and cynical musings that pull you into quirky takes on life, faith, and power.

John Cheever quotes

  1. '...your underwear is clean in case you should be hit by a taxicab and have to be undressed by strangers.'

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  2. '..for the dead fish was striped like a cat and the sky was striped like the fish and the conch was whorled like an ear and the beach was ribbed like a dog's mouth and the movables in the surf splintered and crashed like the walls of Jericho.'

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  3. 'Admite the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the lord.'

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  4. 'I'm wicked, as you say, and I'm rude and I'm boorish and I discovered, after marrying Mr Scaddon, that I could be all these things and worse and that there would still be plenty of people to lick my boots.'

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  5. '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.'

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  6. 'Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.'

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