"Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere."

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Source : "Home Before Dark: A Personal Memoir of John Cheever by His Daughter". Book by Susan Cheever, 1985.

Yasunari Kawabata

“No excuses. No explanations.”
“Dinner was meat - not hunks of meat, as in Australia, but pathetic scraps of meat, as in Britain - which the girls upstairs transformed into edible dishes by heating it in secret ways and adding bits of stuff to it.”
“I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.”
“I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.”
“I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.”
“Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!”
“That's okay. You an be selfish with me all you want. I'm yours.”
“Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.”

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