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John Cheever Quotes: The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.
         

The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.


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All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.



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



Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.



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Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.



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Art is the triumph over chaos.



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Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.



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