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

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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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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I cant write without a reader. Its precisely like a kiss – you cant do it alone. – John Cheever

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alone
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Society
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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. – Milton Friedman

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Society

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. – John F. Kennedy

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Society

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. – Victor Hugo

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Society

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it. – Ian MacKaye

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Society

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Nature engenders the science of painting. – Robert Delaunay

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In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death — even vegetarians. – Spock from Star Trek, “Wolf in the Fold”

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