John Cheever: Quotes about people

John Cheever was American novelist and short story writer. Explore interesting quotes on people.

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“I'm wicked, as you say, and I'm rude and I'm boorish and I discovered, after marrying Mr Scaddon, that I could be all these things and worse and that there would still be plenty of people to lick my boots.”

John Cheever book The Wapshot Chronicle

The Wapshot Chronicle (1957)

“Homesickness is nothing … Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.”

“The Bella Lingua” in The Brigadier and the Golf Widow (1964).

“The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.”

The Sixties, 1963 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)

“People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in madness and in saneness, they seem bound together for eternity by their rudimentary nomenclature. They may loathe and despise one another, quarrel, weep, and commit mayhem, but they are not free to divorce. Tom, Dick, and Harry can go to Reno on a whim, but nothing short of death can separate John and Mary.”

The Sixties, 1966 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)