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John Cheever

"All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life."

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"All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life."

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Aberjhani

"Will a loving God send a man to hell? The answer from Jesus and His teachings of the Bible is, clearly, “Yes!” He does not send man willingly, but man condemns himself to eternal hell because . . .he refuses God's way of salvation and the hope of eternal life with Him."

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Aberjhani

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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Aberjhani

"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

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Aberjhani

"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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Aberjhani

"Things past redress are now with me past care."

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"Some parts of life are lived in the shadows where the only sunlight you feel is the light you pray for."

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"Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style."

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Aberjhani

"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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"Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction."
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"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."
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"The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable."
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"Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two."
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"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."
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"I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind."
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"People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy."
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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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"The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."
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"Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego."
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