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I felt that he was a captive of financial and sentimental commitments, like every other man I know, and that he was no more free to fall in love with a strange woman he saw on a street corner than he was to take a walking trip through French Guiana or to recommence his life in Chicago under an assumed name.
I felt that he was a captive of financial and sentimental commitments, like every other man I know, and that he was no more free to fall in love with a strange woman he saw on a street corner than he was to take a walking trip through French Guiana or to recommence his life in Chicago under an assumed name.
Approximate author period: c. 1947 AD · modern
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- John Cheever
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- Approximate author period: c. 1947 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for John Cheever: life dates 1912 to 1982. Wikidata Q336151, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q336151 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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