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Michael Chabon quotes: Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity. Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity.
Michael Chabon quotes: Her tangle of wild black curls had enacted medusa feats in zero gravity. Her tangle of wild black curls had enacted medusa feats in zero gravity.
Michael Chabon quotes: The foolish coyote faith that could keep you flying as long as you kept kidding yourself that you could fly. The foolish coyote faith that could keep you flying as long as you kept kidding yourself that you could fly.
Michael Chabon quotes: For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. I think it's just a natural human response to loss. For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. I think it's just a natural human response to loss.
Michael Chabon quotes: It is unusual for Joe to be that way, but that's what interested me. It is unusual for Joe to be that way, but that's what interested me.
Michael Chabon quotes: A smile opened, thin as a paper cut, in the bottom of Flowers's face. A smile opened, thin as a paper cut, in the bottom of Flowers's face.
Michael Chabon quotes: As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep. As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.
Michael Chabon quotes: Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon. Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon.
Michael Chabon quotes: Zugzwang. It's when you have no good moves. But you still have to move. Zugzwang. It's when you have no good moves. But you still have to move.
Michael Chabon quotes: It was him, thirty years too old, twenty pounds too light, & forty watts too dim maybe, but him. It was him, thirty years too old, twenty pounds too light, & forty watts too dim maybe, but him.
Michael Chabon quotes: Joe had run away, escaped without a trace, and come here to hide. But now he was ready to come home. The problem was that he didn't know how to Joe had run away, escaped without a trace, and come here to hide. But now he was ready to come home. The problem was that he didn't know how to do it.
Michael Chabon quotes: It was not what he expected from a foulmouthed flower of bohemia, but he had a feeling there was both more and less to her than that. It was not what he expected from a foulmouthed flower of bohemia, but he had a feeling there was both more and less to her than that.
Michael Chabon quotes: She is getting old, and he is getting old, right on schedule, and yet as time ruins them, they are not, strangely enough, married to each other. She is getting old, and he is getting old, right on schedule, and yet as time ruins them, they are not, strangely enough, married to each other.
Michael Chabon quotes: I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude. I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.
Michael Chabon quotes: As any two people who have ever dressed in matching pajamas will attest, it was surprisingly effective. As any two people who have ever dressed in matching pajamas will attest, it was surprisingly effective.
Michael Chabon quotes: I guess I don't fit the new corporate profile." "Which is?" "Competence. I guess I don't fit the new corporate profile." "Which is?" "Competence.
Michael Chabon quotes: Badass.'" My grandfather sampled the flavor of the word. It did not seem to revolt him, but it was nothing he needed ever to sample again. Badass.'" My grandfather sampled the flavor of the word. It did not seem to revolt him, but it was nothing he needed ever to sample again.
Michael Chabon quotes: An excess of the desire to appear grown up is one of the defining characteristics of adolescence. An excess of the desire to appear grown up is one of the defining characteristics of adolescence.
Michael Chabon quotes: My grandparents forgave each other with the pragmatism of lovers in a plummeting airplane. There My grandparents forgave each other with the pragmatism of lovers in a plummeting airplane. There
Michael Chabon quotes: He's making an attempt to look at his ease, but some men just don't know how to stand around with their hands in their pockets and look natural. He's making an attempt to look at his ease, but some men just don't know how to stand around with their hands in their pockets and look natural.
Michael Chabon quotes: Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to. Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.
Michael Chabon quotes: The girl was a labyrinth to him; only by chance and error did he ever stumble blindly into her heart. The girl was a labyrinth to him; only by chance and error did he ever stumble blindly into her heart.
Michael Chabon quotes: The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness
Michael Chabon quotes: Then I reminded myself that I was always willing to listen to arguments in favor of avoiding an unpleasant chore, and I shook my head. Then I reminded myself that I was always willing to listen to arguments in favor of avoiding an unpleasant chore, and I shook my head.
Michael Chabon quotes: At the end of every short story the reader should feel as if a cloud has been lifted from the face of the moon. At the end of every short story the reader should feel as if a cloud has been lifted from the face of the moon.
Michael Chabon quotes: Always true to the code, she said. Always true to the code, she said.
Michael Chabon quotes: So you were going to shoot him," Dick says. "That's some badass fucking therapy, you guys. Damn! Strict Freudian, huh? So you were going to shoot him," Dick says. "That's some badass fucking therapy, you guys. Damn! Strict Freudian, huh?
Michael Chabon quotes: Gibson Goode to Archy: You're just being stubborn now. Stubbornness in the service of a mistaken notion is a vanity and a sin. Gibson Goode to Archy: You're just being stubborn now. Stubbornness in the service of a mistaken notion is a vanity and a sin.
Michael Chabon quotes: The Mandrill with his multicolored wonder ass that he used to bedazzle opponents. The Mandrill with his multicolored wonder ass that he used to bedazzle opponents.
Michael Chabon quotes: You were right once, young man," Anapol said. "That may be all the being right you get. You were right once, young man," Anapol said. "That may be all the being right you get.
Michael Chabon quotes: He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged. He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged.
Michael Chabon quotes: My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with. As My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with. As
Michael Chabon quotes: A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment. A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.
Michael Chabon quotes: The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire. The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.
Michael Chabon quotes: The truth is that comic-book creators have simply lost the habit of telling stories to children. And how sad is that? The truth is that comic-book creators have simply lost the habit of telling stories to children. And how sad is that?
Michael Chabon quotes: ... remembered summer light, and the luminous inverted ghost of a boy with a parrot on his shoulder. ... remembered summer light, and the luminous inverted ghost of a boy with a parrot on his shoulder.
Michael Chabon quotes: Entertainment has a bad name ... The word wears spandex, pasties, a leisure suit studded with blinking lights. Entertainment has a bad name ... The word wears spandex, pasties, a leisure suit studded with blinking lights.
Michael Chabon quotes: This is an essential element of the business of being a man: to flood everyone around you in a great radiant arc of bullshit, This is an essential element of the business of being a man: to flood everyone around you in a great radiant arc of bullshit,
Michael Chabon quotes: He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat. He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat.
Michael Chabon quotes: My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with. My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.
Michael Chabon quotes: He was never unfaithful to Bina. But there is no doubt that what broke the marriage was Landsman's lack of faith. He was never unfaithful to Bina. But there is no doubt that what broke the marriage was Landsman's lack of faith.
Michael Chabon quotes: I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel. I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.
Michael Chabon quotes: My dear son, It is a puzzle worthy of the best psychiatrist that a human life can be so utterly void and at the same time filled to bursting with My dear son, It is a puzzle worthy of the best psychiatrist that a human life can be so utterly void and at the same time filled to bursting with
Michael Chabon quotes: The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart. The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart.
Michael Chabon quotes: It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology. It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.
Michael Chabon quotes: He looked like a man dangerously addicted to the correction of mistaken people. He looked like a man dangerously addicted to the correction of mistaken people.
Michael Chabon quotes: Sometimes even lovers of fiction can be satisfied only by the truth. I Sometimes even lovers of fiction can be satisfied only by the truth. I
Michael Chabon quotes: Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination. Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.
Michael Chabon quotes: Sara hadn't the faintest idea of how she looked, or of what effect her deinotherian body might have on a man. Sara hadn't the faintest idea of how she looked, or of what effect her deinotherian body might have on a man.
Michael Chabon quotes: When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference. When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference.
Michael Chabon quotes: Black people live their whole lives in a fantasy world, it's just not their fantasy. Black people live their whole lives in a fantasy world, it's just not their fantasy.
Michael Chabon quotes: Although it wasn't raining anymore, the air was still heavy with water, and rain gutters were ringing all over Point Breeze. Although it wasn't raining anymore, the air was still heavy with water, and rain gutters were ringing all over Point Breeze.
Michael Chabon quotes: She was always threatening rain; he had been born with an umbrella in his hand. She was always threatening rain; he had been born with an umbrella in his hand.
Michael Chabon quotes: The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day. The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.
Michael Chabon quotes: With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on. With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.
Michael Chabon quotes: When he walked outside again, the sky was shining like a nickel and the air was filled with the smell of sugared nuts. When he walked outside again, the sky was shining like a nickel and the air was filled with the smell of sugared nuts.
Michael Chabon quotes: Oops, the moth woman mumbles Oops, the moth woman mumbles
Michael Chabon quotes: There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal. There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.
Michael Chabon quotes: Never worry about what you are escaping from," he said. "Reserve your anxieties for what you are escaping to. Never worry about what you are escaping from," he said. "Reserve your anxieties for what you are escaping to.
Michael Chabon quotes: Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam. Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.
Michael Chabon quotes: Bright men in narrow neckties and short haircuts whose terrible optimism made the sixties such an admirable and disappointing time. Bright men in narrow neckties and short haircuts whose terrible optimism made the sixties such an admirable and disappointing time.
Michael Chabon quotes: stories make life so much better. stories make life so much better.
Michael Chabon quotes: The evening laid its cool palm against his weary brow as if feeling for a temperature. The evening laid its cool palm against his weary brow as if feeling for a temperature.
Michael Chabon quotes: I don't like to lose control of my emotions. I don't like to lose control of my emotions.
Michael Chabon quotes: Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve. Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve.
Michael Chabon quotes: Her hair was a glory of tendrils for the snaring of husbands. Her hair was a glory of tendrils for the snaring of husbands.
Michael Chabon quotes: I was conscious, then, of a different ache, deeper and more sharp than the feeling of bereavement that a hangover will sometimes uncover in the heart. I was conscious, then, of a different ache, deeper and more sharp than the feeling of bereavement that a hangover will sometimes uncover in the heart.
Michael Chabon quotes: just because you have stopped believing in something you once were promised does not mean that the promise itself was a lie. just because you have stopped believing in something you once were promised does not mean that the promise itself was a lie.
Michael Chabon quotes: That's why baseball is more like life than other games. Sometimes I feel like that's all I do in life, keep track of my errors. That's why baseball is more like life than other games. Sometimes I feel like that's all I do in life, keep track of my errors.
Michael Chabon quotes: God, I just love 'A Journey to the End of the Millennium,' by A. B. Yehoshua. My favorite novel by an American Jew is probably 'Humboldt's Gift.' God, I just love 'A Journey to the End of the Millennium,' by A. B. Yehoshua. My favorite novel by an American Jew is probably 'Humboldt's Gift.'
Michael Chabon quotes: He felt the shock of contact. The weight of her against his chest felt like something she had decided to entrust to him. He He felt the shock of contact. The weight of her against his chest felt like something she had decided to entrust to him. He
Michael Chabon quotes: Like the Party he had joined too late, too young, Chan was a lost claim check, a series of time lapse photos of a promise as it broke. Like the Party he had joined too late, too young, Chan was a lost claim check, a series of time lapse photos of a promise as it broke.
Michael Chabon quotes: They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving each other They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving each other
Michael Chabon quotes: The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem. The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.
Michael Chabon quotes: He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew. He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.
Michael Chabon quotes: It's simply the case that as I get older, I seem every day to give a little bit less of a fuck what people think of or say about me. It's simply the case that as I get older, I seem every day to give a little bit less of a fuck what people think of or say about me.
Michael Chabon quotes: It was the insoluble problems - the false leads and the cold cases - that reflected the true nature of things. It was the insoluble problems - the false leads and the cold cases - that reflected the true nature of things.
Michael Chabon quotes: Is there some vital connection between Norman church architecture and the milking of beef cattle of which I am unaware? Is there some vital connection between Norman church architecture and the milking of beef cattle of which I am unaware?
Michael Chabon quotes: Childhood is a branch of cartography. Childhood is a branch of cartography.
Michael Chabon quotes: She had long since lost the sense of her dresses and skirts and blouses; they were rote phrases of rayon and cotton that she daily intoned. She had long since lost the sense of her dresses and skirts and blouses; they were rote phrases of rayon and cotton that she daily intoned.
Michael Chabon quotes: A momentary gain in one's own sense of shared despair, shared nullity, shared rapture, shared loneliness, shared broken-hearted glee; A momentary gain in one's own sense of shared despair, shared nullity, shared rapture, shared loneliness, shared broken-hearted glee;
Michael Chabon quotes: For true contentment, one must carry a book at all times. For true contentment, one must carry a book at all times.
Michael Chabon quotes: If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world ... ? If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world ... ?
Michael Chabon quotes: Everything, in fact, recalled him to me, as though he'd left the whole world to me in his will. Everything, in fact, recalled him to me, as though he'd left the whole world to me in his will.
Michael Chabon quotes: Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath. Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath.
Michael Chabon quotes: Alcohol as helpful to the making of scapegoats as mud to the shaping of golems. Alcohol as helpful to the making of scapegoats as mud to the shaping of golems.
Michael Chabon quotes: Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.
Michael Chabon quotes: It was fun. That was something I came to fairly late. It was fun. That was something I came to fairly late.
Michael Chabon quotes: grappling in a hernia truss with steel kegs of Yuengling. For grappling in a hernia truss with steel kegs of Yuengling. For
Michael Chabon quotes: Praise means so much when it comes from a lunatic Praise means so much when it comes from a lunatic
Michael Chabon quotes: He had not spoken to a desirable woman who was not at some level his enemy or a whore since 1944. He had not spoken to a desirable woman who was not at some level his enemy or a whore since 1944.
Michael Chabon quotes: I searched my feelings, an activity never far removed from looking for a dead rat in a spidery crawl space under the house. I searched my feelings, an activity never far removed from looking for a dead rat in a spidery crawl space under the house.
Michael Chabon quotes: The natural fragrance of her body was a spicy, angry smell like that of fresh pencil shavings. The natural fragrance of her body was a spicy, angry smell like that of fresh pencil shavings.
Michael Chabon quotes: The instructor, Ms. Pease, also taught in the church's religious school, and she had a Sunday school manner at once saccharine and condemnatory. The instructor, Ms. Pease, also taught in the church's religious school, and she had a Sunday school manner at once saccharine and condemnatory.
Michael Chabon quotes: Although in the past I had seen a few exchanges of genuine affection between them, the Warshaw men were awkward and ill at ease with each other. Although in the past I had seen a few exchanges of genuine affection between them, the Warshaw men were awkward and ill at ease with each other.
Michael Chabon quotes: They weren't my family and it wasn't my holiday, but I was orphaned and an atheist and I would take what I could get. They weren't my family and it wasn't my holiday, but I was orphaned and an atheist and I would take what I could get.
Michael Chabon quotes: Children did not abandon comics; comics, in their drive to attain respect and artistic accomplishment, abandoned children. Children did not abandon comics; comics, in their drive to attain respect and artistic accomplishment, abandoned children.
Michael Chabon quotes: The obscure unease that Pluto has always inspired, a dog owned by a mouse, daily confronted with the mutational horror of Goofy. The obscure unease that Pluto has always inspired, a dog owned by a mouse, daily confronted with the mutational horror of Goofy.
Michael Chabon quotes: She was a vessel built to hold the pain of her history, but it had cracked her, and radiant darkness leaked out through the crack. When She was a vessel built to hold the pain of her history, but it had cracked her, and radiant darkness leaked out through the crack. When
Michael Chabon quotes: I have a boyfriend now. A real one. We're totally dating, it's very strange. I have a boyfriend now. A real one. We're totally dating, it's very strange.

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