Quotes by John Cheever

John Cheever

American writer

Lived from: 1912 - 1982

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 27 may 1912 Died: 18 june 1982

  • 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.

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  • A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
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  • I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
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  • My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.
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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.
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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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  • Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.
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What are the most famous quotes from John Cheever?

The two most famous quotes from John Cheever are:

  • "A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind."
  • "I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind."

When did John Cheever live?

John Cheever was born in 1912 and died in the year 1982.