This list of important quotations from “The Swimmer” by John Cheever will help you work with the essay topics and thesis statements above by allowing you to support your claims. All of the important quotes from “The Swimmer” listed here correspond, at least in some way, to the paper topics above and by themselves can give you great ideas for an essay by offering quotes and explanations about other themes, symbols, imagery, and motifs than those already mentioned and explained. Aside from the thesis statements above, these quotes alone can act as essay questions or study questions as they are all relevant to the text in an important way. All quotes from Cheever's “The Swimmer” contain page numbers as well from the Norton Anthology of Modern Literature.