John Cheever: Chaos

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

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“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”

John Cheever

World , Dreams , Art

“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.”

John Cheever

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

World , Light

“Art is the triumph over chaos.”

John Cheever

The Stories of John Cheever Knopf (1978).

Art