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Quote by John Cheever
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of ones life a

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of ones life and discover ones usefulness. – 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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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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John Cheever
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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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Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized. – Marilyn vos Savant

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Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isnt listening. – Emma Thompson

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communication

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it. – Dale Carnegie

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communication

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard. – Anne Spencer

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True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self. – William Butler Yeats

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We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones. – Sir Anthony Eden

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