John Cheever Quotes
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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You can stroke people with words.
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So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.
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I was once supposed to play the wind in a commercial - yes, the wind. I didn't get it.
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I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
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To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
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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.
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I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.
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I have veterans in my family. But I didn't know anything about DAV, Disabled American Veterans.
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Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.
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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.
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'… the National Football League needs 'a guardian, not a CEO' to deal with the fact that 'the sport is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel.'
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Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.
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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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I helped my mom raise so many little sisters. At 11, I was helping get them ready for school, watching over them, putting them to sleep. It's just naturally with me.
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Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
