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"The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one’s life and discover one’s usefulness."
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John CheeverI do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind. — John Cheever
"I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind."
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John Cheever
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John William Cheever was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set on the Upper East Side of Manhattan; the Westchester suburbs; old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born; and Italy, especially Rome. His short stories included "The Enormous Radio", "Go
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