Fiction is meant to illuminate, to explode, to refresh.

John Cheever
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  1. 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.

  2. I write to make sense of my life."- John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey

  3. Like all bitter men, Flint knew less than half the story and was more interested in unloading his own peppery feelings than in learning the truth.

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