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A page of good prose remains invincible. — John Cheever

Bradish had never had any occasion to experience self-righteousness other than the self-righteousness of the sinner. — John Cheever

Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience. — Susan Cheever

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of a sleeping mind. — John Cheever

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. — John Cheever

There is no such thing as expecting too much. — Susan Cheever

His life was not confined and the delight he took in this observation could not be explained by its suggestion of escape. — John Cheever

When you run a marathon, you mean it. We're built for running. We dream of flying. For now, though, we're built to run. — Benjamin Cheever

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit. — John Cheever

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction. — John Cheever

I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp. — John Cheever

Never eat a heavily sugared doughnut before you go on TV. — John Cheever

There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done. — Susan Cheever

I was swimming with the turd sharks in an ocean made of piss — Sam Cheever

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life — John Cheever

Artemis was the sort of man who frequently proposed marriage, but at thirty he still had no wife. — John Cheever

I told her everything I could think of, even about my father being buried in the Protestant Cemetery. — John Cheever

...years of resolute self-denial, instead of rewarding him with reserves of fortitude, had left him more than ordinarily susceptible to temptation. — John Cheever

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. — John Cheever

Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains. — John Cheever

Dog movies nowadays are not what dog movies were 50 or even 10 years ago. For one thing, the dogs have become better actors. — Benjamin Cheever

God, in his wisdom, sent us his angels, to whisper our names on the wind. God, in his anger, released his devils, to pester our souls to the end. — Sam Cheever

(John Cheever thought that you couldn't even type a business letter without revealing something of your inner self - isn't that the truth?) — Mason Currey

To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim. — John Cheever

Fiction is meant to illuminate, to explode, to refresh. — John Cheever

For Rome is sometimes cold and rainy in the winter in spite of all the naked statues. — John Cheever

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. — Susan Cheever

When you get to be as old and as rich as I am, it's hard to meet people. — John Cheever

Adultery and cruelty have well-marked courses of action but what can a man do when his wife wants to appear naked on the stage? — John Cheever

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone. — John Cheever

I know some people who are afraid to write a business letter because they will encounter and reveal themselves. — John Cheever

Like all bitter men, Flint knew less than half the story and was more interested in unloading his own peppery feelings than in learning the truth. — John Cheever

Literature has been our salvation, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world. — John Cheever

I was here on earth because I chose to be. — John Cheever

Was his memory failing or had he so disciplined it in the repression of unpleasant facts that he had damaged his sense of the truth? — John Cheever

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong. — John Cheever

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness. — John Cheever

Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst — Susan Cheever

I love you not for the person you are, but for your possibilities. — John Cheever

He shook out a copy of The Manchester Guardian. He had noticed that conservative newspapers sometimes inspired confidence in the shy. — John Cheever

The constants that I look for are a love of light and a determination to trace some moral chain of being. — John Cheever

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand. — John Cheever

Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone. — John Cheever

Even a selected display of one's early work will be a naked history of one's struggle to receive an education in economics and love. — John Cheever

Damoclean, but these were people without pretense or affectation, — John Cheever

The Pilgrims landed the Mayflower at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on a cold November day in 1620 because they were running out of beer. — Susan Cheever

I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another's river views. — John Cheever

The CDC reported that 88,000 adults a year die of alcohol consumption. — Susan Cheever

I pull my power more tightly around me like a magic binky. — Sam Cheever

Admite the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the lord. — John Cheever

Justina's life had been exemplary, but by ending it she seemed to have disgraced us all. — John Cheever

Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death. — John Cheever

Love is a great wrecker of peace of mind. — Susan Cheever

There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor. — John Cheever

Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write. — John Cheever

Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings. — Susan Cheever

Grief was for the others; sorrow and pain were for the others; some terrible mistake had been made. — John Cheever

The image of a cleanly, self-possessed man exploiting his solitude was not easy to come by, but then he had not expected that it would be. — John Cheever

We obscure our self-knowledge with anxiety; that it is not what we desire but what we fear and dread we may desire that impedes us - a — John Cheever

Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind. — Susan Cheever

I write to make sense of my life.
-John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey — John Cheever

Guilt is petty; I am above guilt. — Susan Cheever

I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers. — John Cheever

The short story is the literature of the nomad. — John Cheever

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places. — John Cheever

Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain. — Susan Cheever

How can a people who do not mean to understand death hope to understand love, and who will sound the alarm? — John Cheever

Running has thrown me into adventures that I would otherwise have missed. — Benjamin Cheever

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos ... to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream. — John Cheever

The Pilgrims believed beer was an unalloyed good, a 'good creature of God.' People who did not drink were suspect and 'crank-brained. — Susan Cheever

You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore. — John Cheever

To Hades with you, fool, for God hath tired of you. — Sam Cheever

I believe that writing is an account of the powers of extrication. — John Cheever

The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the crux of drugs. — John Cheever

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable. — John Cheever

So visibly shaken by some recent loss of principle that it would have been noticed by a stranger across the aisle — John Cheever

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego. — John Cheever

He was not a practical joke nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure. — John Cheever

For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better. — John Cheever

When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families. — Susan Cheever

But now that she had made him her confidant, he saw that he could not change this relationship. — John Cheever

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever. — Irwin Shaw

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be. — John Cheever

The belief that a crooked heart is betrayed by palsies, tics, and other infirmities dies hard. — John Cheever

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy. — John Cheever

Full lips are better for kissing. — Julia Quinn

Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men. — Susan Cheever

It is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of love and friendship. — John Cheever

I was deep in the poo poo dungeon. — Sam Cheever

This is being written in another seaside cottage on another coast. Gin and whiskey have bitten rings in the table where I sit. — John Cheever

IT WAS ONE of those midsummer Sundays when everyone sits around saying, I drank too much last night. — John Cheever

The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart; the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of us. — John Cheever

I've always thought that violet ribbons look especially nice with brown hair. — Julia Quinn

Art is the triumph over chaos. — John Cheever

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. — John Cheever

The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment. — John Cheever

Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time. — Susan Cheever

Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside. — John Cheever

When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy. Sometimes it doesn't stop there. — Susan Cheever

I do what I have to do, like everyone else, and one of the things I have to do is to serve my wife breakfast in bed. — John Cheever