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"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder."
"[B]eauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor."
"The voice of beauty speaks softly, it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls."
"The more you appreciate the things of beauty all around you, the more beautiful things will fill your life."
Explore more quotes by John Cheever
"The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."
"Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego."
"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."
"People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy."
"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 deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable."
"When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places."
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