"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."
-John Cheever
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"Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.“
-John Cheever
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"When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places."
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