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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."
"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."
"Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so."
"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."
"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."
"Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable."
Explore more quotes by John Cheever
"Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two."
"Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego."
"What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power."
"Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world."
"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."
"When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places."
"The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."
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