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"I cannot squeeze the stars, but I can squeeze my mind to feel the moon compressed."
"He didn't know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn't care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being frightened, like a man who has entered a cave on a lark and now begins to suspect he is lost. Stop thinking about it, then. That's the solution."
"The thoughts that occur to me while I'm running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky."
"Thought for the day: we have far too many of them. And we prize them too highly; more so than we do the power of silence, mindfulness and pure kindness."
"The mind that is collectively orientated is quite incapable of thinking and feeling in any other way than by projection."
"Open your mind to the infinite possibilities that exist for you, then create within your reality the things that you desire."
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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