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