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

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbeys gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind. – John Cheever

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Loneliness
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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. – John Cheever

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Beauty
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It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. – Norman Douglas

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Society

Were going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference. – LL Cool J

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Society

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals. – Ramsey Clark

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Society

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we dont know the cause. – Marilyn vos Savant

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Society

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I was really into classifieds for awhile. Im a big negotiator. My father owned a car dealership when I was younger… its just in my blood. – Jake Johnson

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Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the mans life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a mans habits and then complain that hes not the man she married? – Barbra Streisand

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