More quotes by John Cheever
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil not the strength to choose between the two.
I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
All literary men are Red Sox fans—to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
When the beginnings of self-destruction enter the heart it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one’s life and discover one’s usefulness.
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