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John Cheever

"For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty."

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"For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty."

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"Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality."

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"What does this beauty or than music mean to you? You cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or hear their roar. What do they mean to you?' In the most evident sense they mean everything. I cannot fathom or define their meaning any more than I can fathom or define love or religion or goodness."

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"I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy."

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"The golden proportion is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult to produce and the good easy."

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"You are funny like a kid and awesome like a princess. Unseen like an angel, like the morning sunshine, Kindness like a river and highness like a mountain, In the middle of the Rheine, the cute face and sweet lips, (La la la la, La la , mmmm , mm). Keep the lovely smile, in your juicy icy eyes, Open the heaven for my eyes, forever angel voice, Never angry never harsh, never mad never marsh, Dear or darling, either diamond or dime, Overall the dream of the world."

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"Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?"

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"It was beautiful in a harsh I'm-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way."

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"She is beautiful like an angel, charming like a fairy and sweet like honey."

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"It is difficult for flowers to hide their beauty, that is why they are always picked first."

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