01c. 1947 ADThis shit about being fearless before death ain't got no quality. How could you say you were fearless about leaving the party, even in stir—even franks and rice taste good when you're hungry, even an iron bar feels good to touch, it feels good to sleep. It's like a party even in maximum security and who wants to walk out of a party into something that nobody knows anything at all about?John Cheever / quote ↗
02c. 1947 ADThe deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.John Cheever / quote ↗
03c. 1947 ADThe need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.John Cheever / quote ↗
04c. 1947 ADWisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.John Cheever / quote ↗
05c. 1947 ADWhen I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.John Cheever / quote ↗
07c. 1947 ADFor me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.John Cheever / quote ↗
09c. 1947 ADWisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.John Cheever / quote ↗
10c. 1947 ADHomesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.John Cheever / quote ↗
11c. 1947 ADAll literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.John Cheever / quote ↗
