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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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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The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.
David Remnick
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I think one of the reasons I've been successful is that I can see things before other people do. I've always been able to do it.
Diplo
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Then I noticed that my shadow was crying too, shedding clear, sharp shadow tears. Have you ever seen the shadows of tears, Mr. Wind-Up Bird? They’re nothing like ordinary shadows. Nothing at all. They come here from some other, distant world, especially for our hearts. Or maybe not. It struck me then that the tears my shadow was shedding might be the real thing, and the tears that I was shedding were just shadows. You don’t get it, I’m sure, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. When a naked seventeen-year-old girl is shedding tears in the moonlight, anything can happen. It’s true.
Haruki Murakami
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I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me.
Corey Taylor
Stone Sour
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I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
Alex Winter
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Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
John Cheever
