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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.

~John Cheever

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That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

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It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

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Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

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Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

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Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

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I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

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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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When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: May 27th, 1912

Died: June 18th, 1982

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