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John Cheever Quotes
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

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Category:
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Date of Birth:
May 27, 1912
Date of Death:
June 18, 1982
Nationality:
American
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