/staff avatar Quotation added by staff

Why not add this quote to your bookmarks?


Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers -- they seem to jeopardize all our cherished concepts, even our self-esteem, our property rights, our powers of love, our laws and pleasures. The only relationship we seem to have with them is scorn or bewilderment, but they belong somewhere on the dark prairies of a country that is in the throes of self-discovery.   Cheever, John

This quote is about delinquency · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.


A bit about Cheever, John ...

John Cheever (May 27, 1912June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs." His The Stories of John Cheever won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1979.

These people bookmarked this quote:

More on the author

This quote around the web

Loading...

 

Search Quotations Book