“A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey’s gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.”

— John Cheever

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

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American novelist and short story writer 1912–1982

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