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Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity.
— Michael Chabon
I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
— Salman Rushdie
It's a sinking ship," he said. "You ought to be grateful that they just threw you overboard.
— Michael Chabon
He was tired of shouldering the weight of other people's bad decisions along with his own.
— Michael Chabon
The foolish coyote faith that could keep you flying as long as you kept kidding yourself that you could fly.
— Michael Chabon
It was the kind of dress you tend to see hanging in the closet of a woman who owns only one dress.
— Michael Chabon
It is unusual for Joe to be that way, but that's what interested me.
— Michael Chabon
The devolution of American culture takes another great step forward
— Michael Chabon
It was nice standing out in the darkness, in the damp grass, with spring coming on and a feeling in my heart of imminent disaster.
— Michael Chabon
It was him, thirty years too old, twenty pounds too light, & forty watts too dim maybe, but him.
— Michael Chabon
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
So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.
— Michael Chabon
A great feat of engineering is an object of perpetual interest to people bent on self-destruction
— Michael Chabon
What kind of heaven is that, you can't have your records?
— Michael Chabon
When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely ... Having a big family solves that problem.
— Michael Chabon
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
It takes a sour woman to make a good pickle.
— Michael Chabon
Walter broke off a piece of a smile and tucked it into his left cheek as if reserving it for future use.
— Michael Chabon
Mr. Nostalgia figured he could look it up later if he wanted to break some small, previously unbroken place in his own leaf-buried heart.
— Michael Chabon
An excess of the desire to appear grown up is one of the defining characteristics of adolescence.
— Michael Chabon
My grandparents forgave each other with the pragmatism of lovers in a plummeting airplane. There
— Michael Chabon
And because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second.
— Michael Chabon
because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second. I
— Michael Chabon
The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness
— Michael Chabon
See you in the funny papers, he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation.
— Michael Chabon
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
We can't take pleasure in a work of art, not in good conscience, without accepting the implicit intention of the artist to please us.
— Michael Chabon
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
The brake and gas were rigged to suit a man of his stature, and he handled them like Horowitz sailing through a storm of Liszt.
— Michael Chabon
My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with. As
— Michael Chabon
People keep saying, 'Oh, you're getting all these great reviews, that must make you really happy.' I guess it does, but mostly it's just a relief.
— Michael Chabon
As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like "How sane are we?" and "Do our lives have meaning?
— Michael Chabon
He felt, and not for the first time today, that he had not made a good decision in his personal or professional life since 1989.
— Michael Chabon
And yet for all that I still had never gotten used to the breathtaking impermanence of things.
— Michael Chabon
The past was irretrievable, the league of lonely men a fiction, the pursuit of the past a doomed attempt to run a hustle on mortality.
— Michael Chabon
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
The obscure unease that Pluto has always inspired, a dog owned by a mouse, daily confronted with the mutational horror of Goofy.
— Michael Chabon
People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh.[Afterword] — Michael Chabon
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
You could almost see the idea elbowing its way around the inside of his mind, like Athena in the cranium of Zeus.
— Michael Chabon
Children did not abandon comics; comics, in their drive to attain respect and artistic accomplishment, abandoned children.
— Michael Chabon
He gave her his hand, sensing the thin strong rod of obdurate competence that was the armature of her artsy Village style.
— Michael Chabon
No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.
— Michael Chabon
Never worry about what you're escaping from," he said. "Worry about what you're escaping to.
— Michael Chabon
Telling the truth when the truth matters most is almost always a frightening prospect.
— Michael Chabon
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
The natural fragrance of her body was a spicy, angry smell like that of fresh pencil shavings.
— Michael Chabon
For true contentment, one must carry a book at all times.
— Michael Chabon
In order to destroy the world, it becomes necessary to save it.
— Michael Chabon
He had not spoken to a desirable woman who was not at some level his enemy or a whore since 1944.
— Michael Chabon
Praise means so much when it comes from a lunatic
— Michael Chabon
Combing her thoughts, yanking them into a pigtail.
— Michael Chabon
A high point in a life lived at sea level, prone to flooding.
— Michael Chabon
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[His coat] emitted an odor of bus station so desolate that just standing next to him you could feel your luck changing for the worse.
— Michael Chabon
The greater involution and deeper patina of her left tooth in comparison to the right, the skeptical cast
— Michael Chabon
grappling in a hernia truss with steel kegs of Yuengling. For
— Michael Chabon
The very triteness of it seemed to ensure its likelihood.
— Michael Chabon
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
stories make life so much better.
— Michael Chabon
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
She had been an exhausting woman to love. But he had loved her no less passionately for the hard work.
— Michael Chabon
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
He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.
— Michael Chabon
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
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
A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner
— Michael Chabon
It was the insoluble problems - the false leads and the cold cases - that reflected the true nature of things.
— Michael Chabon
A father is a man who fails every day.
— Michael Chabon
Is there some vital connection between Norman church architecture and the milking of beef cattle of which I am unaware?
— Michael Chabon
Childhood is a branch of cartography.
— Michael Chabon
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
A momentary gain in one's own sense of shared despair, shared nullity, shared rapture, shared loneliness, shared broken-hearted glee;
— Michael Chabon
Success, however, does nothing to diminish the knowledge that failure stalks everything you do.
— Michael Chabon
Her hair was a glory of tendrils for the snaring of husbands.
— Michael Chabon
Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.
— Michael Chabon
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
The evening laid its cool palm against his weary brow as if feeling for a temperature.
— Michael Chabon
I don't like to lose control of my emotions.
— Michael Chabon
It's always thrilling to encounter the sweep of time in a work of fiction in a way that feels authentic and real.
— Michael Chabon
Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve.
— Michael Chabon
And that was when you realized the fire was inside you all the time. And that was the miracle. Just that.
— Michael Chabon
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
Entertainment has a bad name ... The word wears spandex, pasties, a leisure suit studded with blinking lights.
— Michael Chabon
Bird of Wide Experience I
— Michael Chabon
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
I can imagine anything except having no imagination.
— Michael Chabon
just because you have stopped believing in something you once were promised does not mean that the promise itself was a lie.
— Michael Chabon
