John William Cheever Quotes
1912 - 1982
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Yevtushenko has?an ego that can crack crystal at a distance of 20
feet.
Recalled on Cheever's death,18 Jun1982. 
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More John William Cheever Quotes
The city is old, out of step with the century, but age only seems to have quickened its elements? Relics from the past continually pierce the present. Some dream of love survives the sandstone apartment houses.
John William Cheever— 1934 Of Boston. Letter to Elizabeth Ames.
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evilnot the strength to choose between the two.
John William Cheever— 1956 Collected in The Journals,'The Late Forties and Fifties'.
Neither you nor I nor anyone else can describe the volcanic landscapes a poor girl strays into when she marries a literary man.
John William Cheever— 1965 Letter to Frederick Exley,16 Jun.
A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
John William Cheever— 1966 Collected in The Journals,'The Sixties'.
We travel by plane, oftener than not, and yet the spirit of our country seems to have remained a country of railroads.
John William Cheever— 1969 On the US. Bullet Park, pt.1, ch.1.
My veins are filled onceaweek with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.
John William Cheever— 1982 On his cancer treatment. Letter to Philip Roth,10 May.
Trust your editor, and you'll sleep on straw.
John William Cheever— Favourite axiom, quoted in Susan Cheever Home Before Dark (1984).
When the beginnings of self-destruction enter the heart it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.
John William Cheever— 1952 Collected in The Journals,'The Late Forties and Fifties'.
