Michael Chabon quotes - page 6

And then the man reminded Max, with a serious but suave and practiced air, that freedom was a debt that could be repaid only by purchasing the freedom of others. (Michael Chabon)
Writers, unlike most people, tell their best lies when they are alone. View quote
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Childhood is a branch of cartography. View quote
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His dreams had always been Houdiniesque: they were the dreams of a pupa struggling in its blind cocoon, mad for a taste of light and air. View quote
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He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat. View quote
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My heart was simultaneously broken and filled with lust, I was exhausted, and I loved every minute of it. It was strange and elating to find myself for once the weaker. View quote
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With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on. View quote
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The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low. View quote
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The two dozen commonplace childhood photographs - snowsuit, pony, tennis racket, looming fender of a Dodge - were an inexhaustible source of wonder for him, at her having existed before he met her, and of sadness for his possessing nothing of the ten million minutes of that black-and-white scallop-edged existence save these few proofs. View quote
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It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men, the latter a force more than any other responsible for the lamentable state of the world. View quote
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When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference. (Michael Chabon)
Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or the death of his father, or internment of his mother and grandfather, not even the drowning of his beloved brother, had ever broken his heart quite as terribly as the realization, when he was halfway to the rimed zinc hatch of the German station, that he was hauling a corpse behind him. View quote
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Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, was summoned into existence through language, through murmuring, recital, and kabbalistic chitchat -- was, literally, talked into life. View quote
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Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at any time in the history of the world. View quote
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I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to - it's almost like a tic. View quote
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I love the internet and it has been incredibly useful and I have made discoveries that have been immeasurably crucial to my work- things I don't know how I ever would have found out otherwise, that are perfect, just what I need for whatever I'm doing. View quote
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When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem. View quote
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