Art is the triumph over chaos.

John Cheever in The Stories of John Cheever Knopf (1978)
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That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

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

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Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

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

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Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

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I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

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

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Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

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

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