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.”

“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)

“Art is the triumph over chaos.”

The Stories of John Cheever Knopf (1978).