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"There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there."
"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."
"Deep down I believe each of us is a well-spring of understanding and wisdom, but we simply never allow the space or time for this understanding to rise to the level of conscious thought."
"There is an undeniable truth that as one progresses further in his understanding of a craft the rest of his life progresses along with it. This symbiotic relationship between all things is experienced on a daily basis, but rarely articulated through conscious thought."
"Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects."
Explore more quotes by John Cheever
"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."
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