| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 11628 |
| QUOTATION: | When the beginnings of self-destruction enter the heart it seems no bigger than a grain of sand. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John Cheever (19121982), U.S. author. The Late Forties and the Fifties, 1952 entry, John Cheever: The Journals, ed. Robert Gottlieb (1991). |
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