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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To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.
Jane Austen
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A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.
George Orwell
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Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.
Alex Tabarrok
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I think that style, taste, and choices in general are forged by everything that surrounds you - everything you see, taste, touch, smell and hear. So of course, my family has influenced me as a person and in my own style, but so have all the experiences that I went through as an individual.
Margherita Missoni
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Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
John Cheever
