"I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey"

-- John Cheever

#Writing Quotes #Blake Quotes #Make Sense Quotes

“That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.”
“If a person wants to be atheistic it's his God-given right to be an atheist.”
“There is no doubt that America is now the prime target of international communism.”
“Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.”

Source : "Timothy Geithner’s Legacy". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. January 24, 2013.
“If Tal would learn to program himself properly, then it would become quite impossible to play against him.”
“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
“The biggest idiot you will meet in life will be the person that thinks they know it all.”
“I think that an anthill is better than a nest ... that in the anthill among a hundred thousand or a million you are freer than in a nest, where all sit around and look at one another, waiting until scientists finally discover ways to make us mind readers. ... the psychology of the nest is loathsome to me, and I always sympathize with one who flees his nest, even if he flees into an anthill, where it may be crowded but one can find solitude - that most natural, most worthy state of man, that precious and intense state of being conscious of the world and of oneself.”

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