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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. – John Cheever

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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. – John Cheever

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Writing
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John Cheever
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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

Category:
Perfection
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John Cheever
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If youre treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real theyre real for you whether theyre real or not. – James Baldwin

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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. – Mark Twain

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Society

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden. – James Baldwin

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Society

No emancipation without that of society. – Theodor Adorno

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The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper. – Thomas Jefferson

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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? – G.K. Chesterton

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Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women. – Ellen Barkin

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respect

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival. – Sir Winston Churchill

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