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John Cheever [1912-1982] American

Rank: 109
Writer, Novelist

John William Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born, and Italy, especially Rome.

Knowledge, Strength, Wisdom, Art, Communication, Family, Fear, Home, Love, Morning, Society

Quote	Tags	Rank
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.	Family	101
Art is the triumph over chaos.	Art	102
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.	Home	103
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.	Morning	104
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.	Knowledge, Strength, Wisdom	105
All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.	Society	106
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.	Communication	107
That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.		108
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.		109
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.	Love	110
Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.		111
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.		112
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.	Knowledge, Strength, Wisdom	113
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.		114
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.		115
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.	Fear	116
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.		117
I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.		118
People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.		119
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.		120

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