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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Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
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History has proven that when the people of Israel unite under a serious and responsible leadership, we know how to overcome all challenges and overcome all obstacles.
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I have always thought that Heaven is a place for people who had had a good life, but that is not true. God is merciful and way too good to make it so. The Heaven is just a place for people who could not be really happy while living on Earth. I was once told that people who commit suicide are taken back on Earth to repeat life from the very beginning because if they did not like it once, it did not mean they would not like it the next time. But those who did not fit in on Earth at all, ended up here. Everyone comes to Heaven in their own way.
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I believe that the crazy combative patriotism that plainly threatens to destroy civilisation to-day is very largely begotten by the schoolmaster and the schoolmistress in their history lessons. They take the growing mind at a naturally barbaric phase and they inflame and fix its barbarism.
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Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
