"I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever I can lay my shaking hands on."

-- John Cheever

#Numbers Quotes #Hands Quotes #Telephones Quotes

“An unforgiving nature reflects in your face. Holding negative energy drags down the facial muscles, puckers one's frown and causes lines around the mouth. Working daily on forgiveness (forgiving oneself as well as one's enemies) is the cheapest, most effective facelift in the whole wide world. All it requires is love and discipline.”
“One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.”

Source : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could play his wife, rather than the other way around. So for me he's still the lead character.”
“It was difficult, and yet I was very eager to do it. It was a really odd thing. I really wanted to do that story. I really wanted to write the death of Captain Kirk. I really wanted to do it in the movie.”
“Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.”
“For the body at best Is a bundle of aches, Longing for rest; It cries when it wakes.”
“Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of speech, what is the career in which, without the aid of birth or money, he may most easily attain power and reputation in English society? Where is that Goshen of mediocrity in which a smattering of science and learning will pass for profound instruction, where platitudes will be accepted as wisdom, bigoted narrowness as holy zeal, unctuous egoism as God-given piety?”
“I wondered â€“ would a bullet through my temple actually kill me or just leave a really big mess for me to clean up? (Jacob)”

You may also like:

Benjamin Cheever
Writer
Blake Bailey
Writer
Ernest Hemingway
Author
John Updike
Novelist
Philip Roth
Novelist
Raymond Carver
Writer
Richard Yates
Novelist
Saul Bellow
Writer
Susan Cheever
Author