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Art is the triumph over chaos. - John Cheever

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Art is the triumph over chaos.

Biography

Author Profession: Writer

Nationality: American

Born: May 27, 1912

Died: June 18, 1982

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Related Authors

Napoleon Hill, H. L. Mencken, Dr. Seuss, Dale Carnegie, William Arthur Ward, Elbert Hubbard, Robert A. Heinlein, Ray Bradbury

Topics

Art, Chaos, Over, Triumph

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That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit. John Cheever

Remember, Way, Exit, Them, I Remember

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. John Cheever

Home, Time, People, World, Nothing

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong. - John Cheever

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong. John Cheever

Morning, Summer, Wrong, Go, Nothing

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. John Cheever

Fear, House, Knife, Your, Like, Her

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. John Cheever

Life, Red, Men, Society, Fans, Your

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone. John Cheever

Alone, Kiss, You, Without, Like, Write

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. John Cheever

Good, Strength, Wisdom, Knowledge, Evil

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places. John Cheever

Family, Remember, Always, Places, Were

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness. John Cheever

Life, Communication, Need, Sense, Make

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. John Cheever

Beauty, Good, Rain, Power, Me, Grief

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power. John Cheever

I Am, Power, Literature, Say, Will, Only

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world. John Cheever

World, Literature, Lovers, Despair, Save

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. John Cheever

Good, Strength, Wisdom, Knowledge, Evil

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable. John Cheever

Love, Love Is, People, Deep, Joy, Just

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