Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

I cannot keep track of all the vagaries of fashion, Every day, so it seems, brings in a different style.

Popular Topics
Thank You, Pleasures Of Life, Peace Love, Job, Movie Love, Technical, Secret, Love, Air, Important, Knowledge, Hip Hop, Snows, Life, Inspiring, Nice, Comfortable, Like, Inspirational Life, Enthusiast, Intelligent, Kids, Song, Town, Dance, Think, Love You, Songs, Dress, Kindly, Things In Life, Things, Art, Jesus, Positive, New York, World, Good, Motor, Guru, English, Curiosity, Passive, Identity, Life Is Good, Weak, Mother'S Day, Thought, Memorable, Worry
John Cheever

I write to make sense of my life. " -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey

Bailey, Blake, John, Make Sense, Write, Writing
Same Author Quotes

How can we describe the most exalted experience of our physical lives [sex], as if-jack, wrench, hubcap, and nuts-we were describing the changing of a flat tire?

Flat, Nuts, Sex, Tire, Wrench

Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts.

Beautiful, Children, Drown, Men

It is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of love and friendship.

Bread, Death, Friendship, Light, Love, Smell

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.

Cruelty, Involuntary, Men, Organization, Perfection, Tragically

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

Exit, Remember, Way
Similar Quotes