"Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world."

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Source : "Home before Dark". Book by Susan Cheever, 1984.

John Cheever

#Despair Quotes #World Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Love yourself, for who and what you are; protect your dream and develop your talent to the fullest extent.”
“We shall never stop until we can go back home and Israel is destroyed... The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises or mediations... the goal of this violence is the elimination of Zionism from Palestine in all its political, economic and military aspects... We don't want peace, we want victory. Peace for us means Israel's destruction and nothing else.”

Source : The Washington Post, March 29, 1970.
“We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed.”
“Beauty is natureâ€™s way of acting at a distance.”
“Scandal has made wine and popcorn seem like a viable, even healthful, meal.”
“What is first seen as a loss is now seen as a gain. For he finds solitude, not in far off, quite places; he creates it out of himself, spreads it around him, wherever he may be, because he loves it and slowly he ripens in this tranquility. For the inner process is beginning to unfold, stillness is extraordinarily important.”
“You lose with potential.Â You win with performance.”
“Regardless of anything, my dad wants me to "get that piece of paper!" - degree over everything.”

Source : Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. June 22, 2012.

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