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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I was once supposed to play the wind in a commercial - yes, the wind. I didn't get it.
Wagner Moura
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I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
W. D. Richter
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To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Walter Pater
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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 have veterans in my family. But I didn't know anything about DAV, Disabled American Veterans.
Gary Sinise
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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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People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.
Aaron Klug
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You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
Amy Tan
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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want-not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
Ai Weiwei
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Lo que no quiero, al arrojarlo de mis manos, va a caer al alcance de mis manos.
Antonio Porchia
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The only thing I can do is move forward and try to put myself in the best position to help this team win, and whatever decisions they make, I will just have to deal with it.
Matt Harvey
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There is, inside all our heads, the ego’s rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control that dog, and ultimately to end its life, is the process and purpose of enlightened relationships.
Marianne Williamson
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If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
Leon Trotsky
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I never planned on being an actress or Wonder Woman, but everything just happened, and I am grateful and happy and in love with what I do.
Gal Gadot
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Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
John Cheever
