Susan Cheever Quotes
There is no other closeness in human life like the closeness between a mother and her baby - chronologically, physically, and spiritually they are just a few heartbeats away from being the same person.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.
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Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.
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I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey, I could not believe that my parents let us play as long as they did.
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I am one of the endangered species: people who still write in meter and rime.
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I've been overseas more than you have in your whole little life.
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The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.
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As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.
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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
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People should hold elected officials accountable for how they vote. Period.
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I think all of us naturally want to be a part of a community... at home and at work.
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I've no grand designs to conquer the music industry, but I'd love to be able to tell my mates that I'm playing in a pub in Camden one night.
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I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps could become your sound, too. I did that with Hemingway, and I thought I was writing just like Hemingway. Then all of a sudden it occurred to me - he didn't have a sense of humor. I don't know anything he's written that's funny.
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I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
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Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.
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Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
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I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I'm telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God , and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit.
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The more I learned about the use of pesticides, the more appalled I became. I realized that here was the material for a book. What I discovered was that everything which meant most to me as a naturalist was being threatened, and that nothing I could do would be more important.
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Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
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There is no other closeness in human life like the closeness between a mother and her baby - chronologically, physically, and spiritually they are just a few heartbeats away from being the same person.
