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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. ↗

— John Cheever

#case #damned #despair #guided #inspired

Believe me, it jabs you. When you're on the side of buses and New York loves you, you love to go out there every night. It's like a race. Curtain opens, out you go, and New York is yours. ↗

— Angela Lansbury

#buses #curtain #every #every night #go

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy. ↗

— John Cheever

#because #been #between #confusion #fiction

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit. ↗

— John Cheever

#heading #i #i remember #remember #them

Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#better #except #felt #heart #i

I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work. ↗

— Alicia Vikander

#been #colored #day #days #education

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places. ↗

— John Cheever

#always #backs #i #i always #i remember

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#happy #notice #people #summer #whether

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#get #i #lawful #literature #medicine

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#as far as #be the first #being #come #create