"Art is the triumph over chaos."

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Source : John Cheever (1961). “Some Peoples, Places, and Things that Will Not Appear in My Next Novel”, New York : Harper

John Cheever

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“When starting at the bottom, be willing to learn from those at the top.”
“. . . I know, by sad experience, with what difficulty a mind, weakened by long and uninterrupted suffering, admits hope, much less assurance.”
“But it is a worry that there have been so many delays in the reform of China's state-owned enterprises. We all know that private companies are run more efficiently than state ones. These reforms are very much anticipated for the potential dynamism they could create.”
“A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.”
“I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.”
“People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer!”
“Indeed, that the Second Amendment poses no barrier to strong gun laws is perhaps the most well-settled proposition in American constitutional law.”
“At the end of the rainbow waited the pot of gold. But rainbows were made of faint and fragile gossamer-and gold weighed a ton-and since the world began, gold was the reason to do most anything.”

Source : Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”

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