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

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. – John Cheever

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Home
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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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Perfection
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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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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. – George Eliot

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The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family. – Christopher Lasch

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I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries. – Barack Obama

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Family

You can say I had a severe case of Roots envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to… do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. – Henry Louis Gates

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As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice. – Ariel Sharon

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The Presidents political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn. – Robert Teeter

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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. – Martha Washington

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I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook. – Joan Jett

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