As I approach my fortieth birthday without having accomplished any one of the things I intended to accomplish-without ever having achieved the deep creativity that I have worked toward for all this time-I feel that I take a minor, an obscure, a dim position that is not my destiny but that is my fault, as if I had lacked, somewhere along the line, the wit and courage to contain myself competently within the shapes at hand.
( John Cheever )
[ The Journals of John Cheever ]
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