Quote by John Cheever
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They wer

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

Other quotes by John Cheever

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

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Writing
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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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Loneliness
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Family is becoming more and more important to me. – Diane Kruger

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Family

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. – Desmond Tutu

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Family

I dont think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family. – Reba McEntire

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Family

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time. – Christopher Lasch

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Family

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Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals continued our course in the morning and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there. – Christopher Columbus

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The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep. – Suzanne Fields

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I begin to feel like most Americans dont understand the First Amendment, dont understand the idea of freedom of speech, and dont understand that its the responsibility of the citizen to speak out. – Roger Ebert

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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. – Jorge Luis Borges

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