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"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."
"It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing."
"The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything."
"Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing."
"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."
"Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing."
"We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens."
Explore more quotes by John Cheever
"When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places."
"The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable."
"All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life."
"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."
"Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego."
"Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two."
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