John Cheever Quotes
All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
Quotes to Explore
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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When we have sealed the outer border and thus stopped the illegal migration, we can talk about any solution.
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We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
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The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.
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Over time, low rates can put pressure on the business models of financial institutions.
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I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.
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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.
