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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. – 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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Society
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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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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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As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer. – Harvey Weinstein

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Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action. – Friedrich Schiller

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The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. – Frank Herbert

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In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. – Henry Miller

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