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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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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