John Cheever
"All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life."
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"All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life."
"كل الأدباء من مشجعي الريد سوكس؛ أن تكون مشجعًا لليانكيز في مجتمع مثقف هو أن تعرض حياتك للخطر."
John Cheever
"Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time."
"الحنين إلى الوطن لا شيء. نصف أهل الأرض يعيشون في حنين دائم."
John Cheever
"Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two."
"الحكمة، كما ندركها، هي معرفة الخير والشر، لا القدرة على الاختيار بينهما."
John Cheever
"For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty."
"بالنسبة لي، في صفحة النثر الجيد، تسم"
John Cheever
"Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house."
"الخوف مذاقه كسكين صدئ، فلا تدخله بيتك."
John Cheever
"When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places."
"كلما تذكرت أهلي، لاحت لي ظهور"
John Cheever
"Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two."
John Cheever
"The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."
John Cheever
"The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable."
John Cheever
"Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream."
John Cheever
"The novel remains for me one of the few forms...where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether unpleasant struggle to put ourselves into a viable and devout relationship to our beloved and mistaken world."
John Cheever
"For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle... A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in their endeavor to make sure that the fires of this planet burn peaceably."
John Cheever
"Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We have larger apples and better cotton and faster and more beautiful machines. This makes us the greatest country in the world. Unemployment is a myth. Dissatisfaction is a fable. In preparatory school America is beautiful. It is the gem of the ocean and it is too bad. It is bad because people believe it all. Because they become indifferent. Because they marry and reproduce and vote and they know nothing."
John Cheever
"Like all bitter men, Flint knew less than half the story and was more interested in unloading his own peppery feelings than in learning the truth."
John Cheever
"I write to make sense of my life."-John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey"
John Cheever
"Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream."
John Cheever
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