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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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I love seeing my family. – Mia Wasikowska

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Its not common for a woman on television, especially if shes the mom of the family, to be funny. Shes usually a straight man or foil. – Martha Plimpton

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I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while. – Lady Gaga

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The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States. – Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. – E. Joseph Cossman

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Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. – Khalil Gibran

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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. – Jean de La Fontaine

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I love old poems, ladies who lived in past times. Life was maybe not easier, but people took time to idle sometime, and mostly they took time admiring a sunrise, the flowers opening their hearts, etc. – Marie-Ancolie Romanet #oldsoul

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