34 ordspråk av John Cheever

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John Cheever föddes den 27 mei 1912 och dog den 18 juni 1982 - US writer
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 A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.

 A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind

 All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

 Art is the triumph over chaos.

 Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

 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.

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

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

 I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss-you can't do it alone.

 I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

 Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

 People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in madness and in saneness, they seem bound together for eternity by their rudimentary nomenclature. They may loathe and despise one another, quarrel, weep, and commit mayhem, but they are not free to divorce. Tom, Dick, and Harry can go to Reno on a whim, but nothing short of death can separate John and Mary.

 That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

 The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.

 The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.


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