All scornful descriptions of American landscapes with ruined tenements, automobile dumps, polluted rivers, jerry-built ranch houses, abandoned miniature golf links, cinder deserts, ugly hoardings, unsightly oil derricks, diseased elm trees, eroded farmlands, gaudy and fanciful gas stations, unclean motels, candlelit tearooms, and streams paved with beer cans, for these are not, as they might seem to be, the ruins of our civilization but are the temporary encampments and outposts of the civilization that we you and I shall build.
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John Cheever was a 20th-century American novelist and short story writer. John William Cheever was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". Read more on Wikipedia →