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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

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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John Cheever
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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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John Cheever
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The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society. – John Paul Stevens

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Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. – Shirley Chisholm

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Society

The year is 2006. The world has changed in about 364 significant ways since you started reading this sentence. – Terri Guillemets

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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are societys tools, neither more nor less. – Henrik Ibsen

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Society

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