"The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."

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Source : Accepting Edward MacDowell Medal, September 8, 1979.

John Cheever

#Writing Quotes #Needs Quotes #Make Sense Quotes

“Iâ€™m a basketball player, not a monk.”
“THE DYING GAUL is a Hollywood satire. But Hollywood is not the real subject matter here. My play uses that world of high-rolling big money - that crazy-making business - to examine a whole range of subjects..”
“In a world where everything revolves around yourself-protec t yourself, promote yourself, comfort yourself, and take care of yourself-Jesus says, 'Crucify yourself. Put aside all self-preservati on in order to live for God's glorification, no matter what that means for you in the culture around you.'”
“Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.”

Source : Frances Power Cobbe (2010). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”, p.6, Cambridge University Press
“What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.”
“The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.”
“A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains ...”
“Humans are the only animals who will follow unstable pack leaders.”

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