John Cheever – Quotes Lover

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just...

#John Cheever

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just...

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

#Nature

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

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

#Wisdom

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

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the...

#Grief, #Poetry

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the...

Art is the triumph over chaos.

#Art

Art is the triumph over chaos.

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle...

#Loneliness

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle...

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

#John Cheever

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just...

#Joy, #Relationships

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just...

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed...

#John Cheever

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed...

A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced...

#History, #Writers

A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced...

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction...

#John Cheever

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction...

I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the...

#Cities

I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the...

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

#John Cheever

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

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

#John Cheever

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

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman...

#John Cheever

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman...

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say....

#John Cheever

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say....

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

#John Cheever

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

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

#John Cheever

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