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John Cheever Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 27, 1912 - June 18, 1982

Topics

Fear House Knife Her Like Your

When it comes to my racing career I'm very driven and very selfish. People who are around me at races will know that I'm a different person here than in my personal life. I completely blank people at races. I need to be focused. I'm rude.

Life People Me Selfish Racing Know

Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I'm urging people to minimize the time spent on these when they're not critical to their most important goals.

Goals Time People Decisions Get

I want to feel I have the energy I will need as an older mother having a younger baby. It's really important that when I'm 51, and my daughter is 10, that I feel I can still run around and do things with her, and feel the energy of a slightly younger woman having their kids at school.

Mother Daughter Woman School Baby

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Better Talking You Delusion Things

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

Beautiful Eye Fair Lovely Everything

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Government Support You Russia Get

You need to believe. If you don't believe, you can never get anything.

Believe You Never Need Anything Get

I'm a big rock star, I got a beautiful girl, and they still call me a fag. Its' like high school never ends - the jocks are always on top.

Girl Beautiful School Me High School

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

Bruce Springsteen

Life American Dream Reality American

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

Me Flame Box Playing Ashes Dozen

Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.

Style Light Fitness Ride Mountain

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.

Change Building Begin Up Anything

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