John Cheever: Back

John Cheever was American novelist and short story writer. Explore interesting quotes on back.

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“At my back I hear the word—”homosexual”—and it seems to split my world in two…. It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that creates this terrifying erotic chaos. Information, a crumb of information, seems to light the world.”

The Sixties, 1966 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)

“When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places. That’s the way I remember them, heading for an exit.”

Quoted by Susan Cheever, Home before Dark Houghton Mifflin (1984).

“I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another’s river views.”

“Moving Out” Esquire (June 1983).