Michael Chabon Quotes
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Michael Chabon Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The foolish coyote faith that could keep you flying as long as you kept kidding yourself that you could fly.
As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.
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.
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.
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.
As any two people who have ever dressed in matching pajamas will attest, it was surprisingly effective.
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.
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.
The girl was a labyrinth to him; only by chance and error did he ever stumble blindly into her heart.
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.
At the end of every short story the reader should feel as if a cloud has been lifted from the face of the moon.
So you were going to shoot him," Dick says. "That's some badass fucking therapy, you guys. Damn! Strict Freudian, huh?
Gibson Goode to Archy: You're just being stubborn now. Stubbornness in the service of a mistaken notion is a vanity and a sin.
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.
My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with. As
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 truth is that comic-book creators have simply lost the habit of telling stories to children. And how sad is that?
... remembered summer light, and the luminous inverted ghost of a boy with a parrot on his shoulder.
Entertainment has a bad name ... The word wears spandex, pasties, a leisure suit studded with blinking lights.
This is an essential element of the business of being a man: to flood everyone around you in a great radiant arc of bullshit,
My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.
He was never unfaithful to Bina. But there is no doubt that what broke the marriage was Landsman's lack of faith.
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
The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart.
Sara hadn't the faintest idea of how she looked, or of what effect her deinotherian body might have on a man.
When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference.
Although it wasn't raining anymore, the air was still heavy with water, and rain gutters were ringing all over Point Breeze.
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.
With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.
When he walked outside again, the sky was shining like a nickel and the air was filled with the smell of sugared nuts.
Never worry about what you are escaping from," he said. "Reserve your anxieties for what you are escaping to.
Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.
Bright men in narrow neckties and short haircuts whose terrible optimism made the sixties such an admirable and disappointing time.
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.
just because you have stopped believing in something you once were promised does not mean that the promise itself was a lie.
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.
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.'
He felt the shock of contact. The weight of her against his chest felt like something she had decided to entrust to him. He
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.
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
The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.
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 was the insoluble problems - the false leads and the cold cases - that reflected the true nature of things.
Is there some vital connection between Norman church architecture and the milking of beef cattle of which I am unaware?
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.
A momentary gain in one's own sense of shared despair, shared nullity, shared rapture, shared loneliness, shared broken-hearted glee;
If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world ... ?
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.
I searched my feelings, an activity never far removed from looking for a dead rat in a spidery crawl space under the house.
The instructor, Ms. Pease, also taught in the church's religious school, and she had a Sunday school manner at once saccharine and condemnatory.
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.
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.
Children did not abandon comics; comics, in their drive to attain respect and artistic accomplishment, abandoned children.
The obscure unease that Pluto has always inspired, a dog owned by a mouse, daily confronted with the mutational horror of Goofy.