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And who are the greater criminals-those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?

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John Cheever

The writer cultivates, extends, raises and inflates his imagination, sure that this is his destiny, his usefulness, his contribution to the understanding of good and evil. As he inflates his imagination he inflates his capacity for evil.

Cultivates, Destiny, Evil, Good, Imagination, Understanding
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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

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
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