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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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All literary men are Red Sox fans – to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. – John Cheever

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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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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. – John Cheever

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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. – Franz Kafka

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All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. – Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948

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The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. – Ray Bradbury

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. – Dale Carnegie

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My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didnt because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children. – Bill Cosby

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Property is the pivot of civilization. – Leon Samson

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Its not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses. – Marco Rubio

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