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 difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.
Martina Navratilova
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You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.
Rafael Palmeiro
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The way to the organic, active peace of brotherhood leads through the hearts of peacemakers who will knit together, with patience and self-sacrifice, the shorn and tangled fibers of human aspirations, faith, and hopes, who will transcend the fears and dangers of an adventure of trust. The road to unity is the road of repentance.
H. Richard Niebuhr
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It's time to respect the treaties our ancestors signed and care for our land, water, and cultures so that they remain healthy for our future generations.
Winona LaDuke
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But it's also the beginning of another level of liberation for her Eleanor Roosevelt, because when she returns to New York, she gets very involved in a new level of politics. She meets Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read, and becomes very involved in the women's movement, and then in the peace movement. And ironically, the years of her greatest despair become also the years of her great liberation.
Blanche Wiesen Cook
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Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
John Cheever
