• The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.

  John Cheever
  American writer 1912-1982
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. near-sightedness
2. involuntary
3. tragically
4. understand
5. cruelty
6. another

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The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another. by : John Cheever

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