John Cheever's Quote - When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They wer

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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

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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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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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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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Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future. – Gail Lumet Buckley

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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them. – Gertrude Stein

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Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, Im an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better! So here we stand. Americans have a choice. – Mitt Romney

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If Im diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent. – Gus Van Sant

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