{"author":"John Cheever","author_id":"John+Cheever","total_quotes":35,"quotes":[{"text":"When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.","author":"John Cheever","tags":["leaving","remember","places "],"id":33288,"author_id":"John+Cheever"},{"text":"The novel remains for me one of the few forms...Where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether unpleasant struggle to put ourselves into a viable and devout relationship to our beloved and mistaken world.","author":"John Cheever","tags":["fiction","national-book-award-for-fiction","novel"],"id":63487,"author_id":"John+Cheever"},{"text":"Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.","author":"John Cheever","tags":["knife","her","house "],"id":71955,"author_id":"John+Cheever"},{"text":"Mixed with the love we hold for our native country is the fact that it is the place where we were raised, and, should anything have gone a little wrong in this process, we will be reminded of this fault, by the scene of the crime, until the day we die.","author":"John Cheever","tags":["nostalgia"],"id":84565,"author_id":"John+Cheever"},{"text":"Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.","author":"John Cheever","tags":["fiction"],"id":89706,"author_id":"John+Cheever"},{"text":"The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.","author":"John Cheever","tags":["deep","love is","joy "],"id":106943,"author_id":"John+Cheever"},{"text":"Oh, what can you do with a man like that? What can you do? How can you dissuade his eye in a crowd from seeking out the cheek with acne, the infirm hand; how can you teach him to respond to the inestimable greatness of the race, the harsh surface beauty of life; how can you put his finger for him on the obdurate truths before which fear and horror are powerless? The sea that morning was iridescent and dark. My wife and my sister were swimming--Diana and Helen--and I saw their uncovered heads, black and gold in the dark water. I saw them come out and I saw that they were naked, unshy, beautiful, and full of grace, and I watched the naked women walk out of the sea.","author":"John Cheever","tags":["perspective"],"id":109676,"author_id":"John+Cheever"},{"text":"A NEW CONQUEST always had a wonderful effect on Charlie. He became overnight generous, understanding, inexhaustibly good-humored, relaxed, kind to cats, dogs, and strangers, expansive, and compassionate.","author":"John Cheever","tags":["men"],"id":121334,"author_id":"John+Cheever"},{"text":"When you get to be as old and as rich as I am, it’s hard to meet people.","author":"John Cheever","tags":["rich"],"id":122837,"author_id":"John+Cheever"},{"text":"Then there was a fine noise of rushing water from the crown of an oak at his back, as if a spigot there had been turned. Then the noise of fountains came from the crowns of all the tall trees. Why did he love storms, what was the meaning of his excitement when the door sprang open and the rain wind fled rudely up the stair, why had the simple task of shutting the windows of an old house seem fitting and urgent, why did the first watery notes of a storm wind have for him the unmistakable sound of good news, cheer, glad tidings?","author":"John Cheever","tags":["rain"],"id":125449,"author_id":"John+Cheever"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":35,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}