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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I cant write without a reader. Its precisely like a kiss – you cant do it alone. – John Cheever

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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. – T.S. Eliot

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Our passions shape our books; repose writes them in the intervals. – Proust, The Past Recaptured, 1927

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The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. – Elias Canetti

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It is not my sentence that I polish, but my thought. I pause until the drop of light that I need is formed and falls from my pen. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

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Sisters may share the same mother and father but appear to come from different families. – Author Unknown

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An unjust peace is better than a just war. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. – Maggie Gallagher

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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. – H. L. Mencken

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