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John Cheever Quotes

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Strength Good Wisdom Knowledge Evil

I'm a minimalist Jew, but on Friday night, I celebrate Shabbat. At sundown, we light candles, say the blessing, and I don't turn on my computer for 24 hours.

Blessing Light Night Celebrate Say

Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child.

Child People Me Song Try Opera

The number one thing I've heard Trump supporters say - number one thing - 'I love him because he says what's on his mind. He just says what's on his mind.' He just says what's on his mind. You go, 'What are your thoughts on his policies?' 'I don't know about his policies. He just says what's on his mind.'

Love Mind Thoughts You Go Know

I'm nearly always at home at the weekends; that's important for every working woman today, not just me. I don't encourage people to come in at the weekend and work; I encourage people to go home and create great families.

Angela Ahrendts

Work Home Today Great Woman People

I think, television and comics, what's appealing to me as a writer about both of those mediums is that they allow you to sort of let the story unfold in its own time as opposed to trying to compress it into a two-hour discreet unit of narrative.

Time Me Story Think Trying You

In the Victorian age, actors played Romeo until they were 60 or 70 years old.

Age Old Years Victorian Were Until

For years and hundreds of thousands of miles, I drove with one knee, with the eight-track and the light dome on in the car, and a yellow pad, just writing down random ideas. I had notebooks and notebooks. The next morning, I'd go, 'Whoa, what was I thinking?' But there'd be one or two ideas that weren't that bad.

Car Morning Light Yellow Ideas Bad

I think there is a direct correlation between interest shown by a member of Congress on these projects and the progress that is made. I think it gives the Superfund effort some credibility, lets citizens know we are serious about these cleanups.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

Progress Effort Think Serious Know

I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's when I see the goal.

Me Decisions Goal Intellectual Meet

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

Opportunity Time Death Fight Stop

The reality is that companies are full of things that are left unspoken. And even when they are out in the open, the CEO is almost always the last to know.

Reality Know Always Open Out Left

It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.

Life You Person True More Write

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