Quotes of John Cheever

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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.

- John Cheever

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“ Sitting too long produces trees. ”

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