Quote by John Cheever
All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a litera

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

Other quotes by John Cheever

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

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Perfection
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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. – John Cheever

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Knowledge
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Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts. – George Osborne

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Society

The finest clothing made is a persons own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this. – Mark Twain

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Society

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe. – John Andrew Holmes

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Society

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. – Alexis Carrel

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Society

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The future is no more uncertain than the present. – Walt Whitman

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Future

Lord save us all from… a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. – Mark Twain

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Hope

Im trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably wont be out until next year. I dont know. – Marian McPartland

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Birthday

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck. – Alanis Morissette

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best