"I was born into no true class and it was my decision early in life to insinuate myself into the middle class like a spy so that I would have an advantageous position of attack, but I seem now and then to have forgotten my mission, and to have taken my disguises too seriously."

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John Cheever

#Taken Quotes #Class Quotes #Decision Quotes

“Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.”
“Our President feels, and apparently many in the United Nations Security Council feel, that it is necessary to disarm Iraq before Iraq can again use weapons of mass destruction on her neighbors or she makes some liaison with terrorists who will use these weapons either against Iraq's neighbors or ourselves.”
“I've never known anyone more ill equipped for happiness. He wouldn't know what to do with it.”
“My mum is about five foot with her hair done. Without it she's about four foot 10.”
“The two greatest things that all men aim at in any free government are liberty and permanency. We have had liberty enough - too much perhaps in some respects - but at all events, liberty to our hearts content.”
“In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it's great.”
“Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?”
“We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.”

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