American - Writer | May 27, 1912 - June 18, 1982
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.
John Cheever
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Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.
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The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
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I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
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The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
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Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
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Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
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People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.
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