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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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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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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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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It’s not plagiarism — I’m recycling words, as any good environmentally conscious writer would do. – Uniek Swain

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Writing
[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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Writing

A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right. – John K. Hutchens, New York Herald Tribune, 1961 September 10th

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Writing

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. – Samuel Johnson

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Writing

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Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country. – Isabel Allende

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Education

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. – Charles Lamb

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Truth

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. – Dante Alighieri

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Knowledge

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. – William Butler Yeats

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