John Cheever Quotes
Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
John Cheever
Quotes to Explore
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
Imran Khan
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Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.
Eddie Trunk
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I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.
Maggie Hassan
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I have veterans in my family. But I didn't know anything about DAV, Disabled American Veterans.
Gary Sinise
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Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.
Camille Paglia
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The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future, concentrated into Gertrude's voice, became one of red clay pine-barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.
Randall Jarrell
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'It's broccoli, dear.' 'I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.'
E. B. White
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Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.
Michael Morpurgo
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I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.
Abbie Cornish
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Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God. He gave them moral activity. But the Age, the World, Humanity, must give them the means to exercise this moral activity, must give them intellectual cultivation, spheres of action.
Florence Nightingale
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Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
John Cheever
