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John Cheever

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John Cheever Quotes

Total quotes: 3

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John Cheever

Birthname

Birthday: May 27, 1912

Death: June 18, 1982

Manner of Death: Natural Causes

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Diarist, Novelist, Screenwriter, Writer

Total quotes: 3

“Of all the millions of people in New York, I am practically the only one who has to get up in the cold black of 6 a.m. on Christmas Day in the morning; I am practically the only one.”

— John Cheever, Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor

Tagged: Seasonal Depression, Christmas, Capitalism

“As he inflates his imagination, he inflates his capacity for anxiety, and inevitably becomes the victim of crushing phobias that can only be allayed by crushing doses of heroin or alcohol.”

— John Cheever, The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking

Tagged: Writers, Stories, Anxiety, Mental Health, Creatives, Artists, Drugs, Alcohol

“We are told stories as children to help us bridge the abyss between waking and sleeping. We tell stories to our own children for the same purpose. When I find myself in danger -- caught on a stuck ski-lift in a blizzard -- I immediately start telling myself stories. I tell myself stories when I am in pain and I expect as I lay dying I will be telling myself a story in a struggle to make some link between the quick and the defunct.”

— John Cheever, The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking

Tagged: Writers, Stories, Death, Psychology, Quote of the Moment

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