"Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains."

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Source : John Cheever (1958). “The Housebreaker of Shady Hill, and Other Stories: By John Cheever”, New York, Harper

John Cheever

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“Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.”
“A good life is like a weaving. Energy is created in the tension. The struggle, the pull and tug are everything.”
“Knowing how to keep someone motivated and how to keep a connection are skills humans have learned and evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. A robot can't figure out whether you can do one more push-up, or how to motivate you to actually do it.”
“I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.”
“The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.”
“My health is very much improved.”
“Every single element in an advertisement - headline, subhead, photo, and copy - must be put there not because it looks good, not because it sounds good, but because testing has shown that it works best!”
“In the year 1090, there was founded in Persia the religious and military order of the Assassins, whose history is one of cruelty, barbarity, and murder, and for good reason: the members were confirmed users of hashish, or marihuana, and it is from the Arabs' 'hashashin' that we have the English word 'assassin.'”

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