John Cheever Quote

If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill of their own essence and drift through life without identity, like a human fog, feeling sorry for everyone.

The Housebreaker of Shady Hill, and Other Stories: By John Cheever (ed. New York, Harper, 1958)