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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As an athlete, you'll never feel bad about losing, but what you will feel bad about is underperforming. That's a real thing and it happens a lot when we don't live up to our potential. And that keeps you up at night and can give you years and years of regret. It could be a relationship, it could be a homework assignment, or it could be an athletic competition. If you don't go out and perform to the best of your ability, it will really bother you.
Chael Sonnen
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I mean, I'm married first of all to one of, if not the most wonderful women in the world. She is everything - funny, attractive, hard-working, she has integrity, she loves me to bits.
Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel
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He drew himself up and said with dignity: 'We administer justice, Mr. Courtenay. And an ancient, basic tenet of justice is: ‘Better that one thousand innocents suffer unjustly than one guilty person be permitted to escape.’'
Frederik Pohl
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Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.
Tim Robbins
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And if I didn’t, I’d spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I’d had the guts to try.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
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Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
John Cheever
