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

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

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  5. Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We have larger apples and better cotton and faster and more beautiful machines. This makes us the greatest country in the...

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