Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

John Cheever
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  2. The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. - Friedrich Nietzsche

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  5. Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.] - Gautama Buddha

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  1. Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

  2. I write to make sense of my life."- John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey

  3. Like all bitter men, Flint knew less than half the story and was more interested in unloading his own peppery feelings than in learning the truth.

  4. I dream that someone in space says to me: So let us rush, then, to see the world. It is shaped like an egg, covered with seas and continents, warmed and lighted by the sun. It has churches of indescribable beauty, raised to gods that...

  5. Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We have larger apples and better cotton and faster and more beautiful machines. This makes us the greatest country in the...

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