"The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable."

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Source : John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

John Cheever

#Love Quotes #People Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Quick guys get tired; big guys don't shrink.”
“In every combustion there is disengagement of the matter of fire or of light. A body can burn only in pure air [oxygen]. There is no destruction or decomposition of pure air and the increase in weight of the body burnt is exactly equal to the weight of air destroyed or decomposed. The body burnt changes into an acid by addition of the substance that increases its weight. Pure air is a compound of the matter of fire or of light with a base. In combustion the burning body removes the base, which it attracts more strongly than does the matter of heat, which appears as flame, heat and light.”
“We were all born with wings. In times of doubt: spread them.”
“It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”
“Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.”
“I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.”
“I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.”
“...when it comes down to making work that really sings, I don't know if I can teach any of it. I don't even know if I can do any of it half the time. It's so much about failure, it's so much about making pictures that are so utterly boring and overstated, you're endlessly disappointed. And in that process you hopefully find something that draws you back and calls to you.”

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