“I was born into no true class and it was my decision early in life to insinuate myself into the middle class like a spy so that I would have an advantageous position of attack, but I seem now and then to have forgotten my mission, and to have taken my disguises too seriously.”
Quote by John Cheever
Author
John Cheever
John Cheever was an American novelist renowned for his short stories, which often focused on the lives and moral dilemmas of the middle class. His writing style was concise and profound, and he had a significant impact on 20th-century American literature. more
You May Also Like
Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works
“Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.”
Source: Back-log studies and My summer in a garden
“I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.”
“The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.”
Source: The Lonely Crowd
Source: The Lonely Crowd
“The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson