# Quote — John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle

> ..for the dead fish was striped like a cat and the sky was striped like the fish and the conch was whorled like an ear and the beach was ribbed like a dog's mouth and the movables in the surf splintered and crashed like the walls of Jericho.

- Author: [John Cheever](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-cheever.md)
- Book: [The Wapshot Chronicle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-cheever/the-wapshot-chronicle.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Cheever#The_Wapshot_Chronicle_(1957)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-cheever/the-wapshot-chronicle/for-the-dead

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> He had that spooky bass voice meant to announce that he had entered the kingdom of manhood, but Rosalie knew that he was still outside the gates.

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> ...your underwear is clean in case you should be hit by a taxicab and have to be undressed by strangers.

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> I'm wicked, as you say, and I'm rude and I'm boorish and I discovered, after marrying Mr Scaddon, that I could be all these things and worse and that there would still be plenty of people to lick my boots.

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