Quote by John Cheever
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. – John Cheever

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Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. – John Cheever

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Home
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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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The road to hell is paved with adverbs. – Stephen King

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Writing

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. – Catherine Drinker Bowen, Atlantic, December 1957

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I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. – James Michener

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He that uses many words for the explaining any subject doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink. – John Ray

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The great thing about arriving at this age is that I dont even care about my career anymore. – Ron Perlman

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I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up. – Jim DeMint

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The true index of a mans character is the health of his wife. – Cyril Connolly

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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. – Victor Hugo

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