Quotes by Cheever, John

We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wond >>

My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner dist >>

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind. >>

Quotations about Fallibility

We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravage >>

The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafnes >>

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch ea >>

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.

Cheever, John