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"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."

"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."

"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything."

"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight."

"Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable."

"Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss."
Explore more quotes by John Cheever

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

"The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony."

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

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

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