#o

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. ↗

— John Cheever

#beauty #give #good #good prose #grief

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. ↗

— John Cheever

#fifty #fifty percent #homesick #homesickness #nothing

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego. ↗

— John Cheever

#excellent #good #greater #hundred #latitude

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind. ↗

— John Cheever

#i #i do #mind #sleeping #understand

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. ↗

— John Cheever

#american #american writer #ball #ceremony #describe

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power. ↗

— John Cheever

#am #comprehend #consciousness #danger #going

I met Rodney when I first moved to LA, so I'd say 20 years. He's the eternal teenager. ↗

— Kathy Valentine

#first #i #la #met #moved

A dreamer is person who fight all time to accomplished his or her dreams of life, with the spirit of determination, a mind of focus ,honesty, humble, committed,unshakeable mind and independent.A dreamer thinks about the future but not the present time, so dreamer arise to shine for the future is bright for people with sight and critical thinking ↗

— Kwame Addai

#dreams

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#always #eager #existence #lead #lonely

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#broken glass #glass #light #me #moon