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John Cheever Quotes

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Writing Promises Ego Things

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

Hope Fishing Charm Pursuit Elusive

I like to take credit for the work that I have done.

Work Credit Done Take Like

What if Whitney was at her top, and we brought in a name like Whitney Houston, it would sell.

Name What If Top Houston Her Sell

At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time.

Time Name End America Fraud Right

As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever.

Losing Child Someone Know Lived Who

When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.

Good You Differences Your Partisan

I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks.

Donald G. Mitchell

Life Day Shadow My Life Heaven Cast

I like animal sidekicks. They seem to be a pretty cool trope of post-apocalyptic fiction - just because if you're going to have this lone protagonist, they're going to need someone to talk to. Dogs are overused, and cats are dumb. So that leaves monkeys.

Brian K. Vaughan

Cats Animal Cool Someone You Dumb

Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.

Light Day Lose Vote Contact Many

I think that Hezbollah, no doubt that they work together with the Syrians.

Work Together Think Doubt No Doubt

I can't be separated from nature. I am one of her faces.

Nature I Am Her Faces Separated Am

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

Eye Think Meaning Ready True See

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