John Cheever Quote

There isn't a king or a merchant prince in the whole world that I envy, for I always knew I was born to be a child of destiny and that I was never meant to wring my living from detestable, low, degrading, mean and ordinary kinds of business.


The Wapshot Chronicle (ed. Random House, 2010) - ISBN: 9781409088899


There isn't a king or a merchant prince in the whole world that I envy, for I always knew I was born to be a child of destiny and that I was never...

There isn't a king or a merchant prince in the whole world that I envy, for I always knew I was born to be a child of destiny and that I was never...

There isn't a king or a merchant prince in the whole world that I envy, for I always knew I was born to be a child of destiny and that I was never...

There isn't a king or a merchant prince in the whole world that I envy, for I always knew I was born to be a child of destiny and that I was never...