“My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.”

—  John Cheever

Letter to Philip Roth (May 10, 1982); The Letters of John Cheever (1989).

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American novelist and short story writer 1912–1982

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