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

Other quotes by John Cheever

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places. – John Cheever

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Family
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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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[G]usto thrives on freedom, and freedom in art, as in life, is the result of a discipline imposed by ourselves. Moreover, any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others. – Marianne Moore (1887–1972), lecture, 1948

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Novelists… fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence. – Fay Weldon

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Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. – Theodore Dreiser

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Some authors write with a grave ink, of a dramatic pen dipped into their dark souls. – Terri Guillemets

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A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine. – Meher Baba

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Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society… It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff. – Stephen Harper

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