Michael Chabon Quotes

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• Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.

  Michael Chabon

  Escaping, Anxiety, Forget

  "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Book by Michael Chabon, September 19, 2000.

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• Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars.

  Michael Chabon

  Stars, Commitment, Body

  Michael Chabon (2012). “Telegraph Avenue”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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• Every day is like a kid's drawing, offered to you with a strange mix of ceremoniousness and offhand disregard, yours for the keeping. Some of the days are rich and complicated, others inscrutable, others little more than a stray gray mark on a ragged page. Some you manage to hang on to, though your reasons for doing so are often hard to fathom. But most of them you just ball up and throw away.

  Michael Chabon

  Kids, Drawing, Balls

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• Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.

  Michael Chabon

  Powerful, Imagination, Care

  Michael Chabon (2012). “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel”, p.272, Random House

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• Along the way, he or she discovers that the world has been broken for as long as anyone can remember. Everyone, sooner or later, gets a thorough schooling in brokenness.
  The question becomes what to do with the pieces?

  Michael Chabon

  Long, Broken, Pieces

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• Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.

  Michael Chabon

  People, Attention, Boring

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• Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives the way Milo’s tollbooth appears, an inexplicable gift, cast up by some curious chance that comes to feel, after we have finished and fallen in love with the book, like the workings of a secret purpose. Of all the enchantments of beloved books the most mysterious-the most phantasmal-is the way they always seem to come our way precisely when we need them.

  Michael Chabon

  Book, Secret, Enchantment

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• For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.

  Michael Chabon

  Loss, Thinking, Emotion

  "Michael Chabon’s Vinyl Draft". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 2012.

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• A father is a man who fails every day.

  Michael Chabon

  Fathers Day, Father, Men

  Michael Chabon (2012). “Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.

  Michael Chabon

  Feelings, Risk, Moments

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands”, p.163, Open Road Media

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• Never say love is "like" anything... It isn't.

  Michael Chabon

  Love, Inspiring, Love Is

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• There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.

  Michael Chabon

  Animal, Embarrassing

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Wonder Boys”, p.44, Open Road Media

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• Do what you gotta do and stay fly

  Michael Chabon

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• Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.

  Michael Chabon

  Men, Laughing, Dark Humor

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• It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

  Michael Chabon

  Differences, Denial, Used

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Wonder Boys”, p.197, Open Road Media

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• I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now, that the world was always on the edge of total destruction.

  Michael Chabon

  Kids, Knowing, Comfort

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• Some things that are invisible and untouchable can nevertheless be seen and felt.

  Michael Chabon

  Invisible, Untouchables, Nevertheless

  Michael Chabon (2013). “Summerland”, p.24, HarperCollins UK

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• If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world...?

  Michael Chabon

  Children, World, Taught

  "Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son". Book by Michael Chabon, September 29, 2009.

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• It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.

  Michael Chabon

  Apology, Simple, Accepting

  Michael Chabon (2011). “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”, p.149, Open Road Media

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• Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes me truly happy to be a reader.

  Michael Chabon

  Writing, Important, Three

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• Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!

  Michael Chabon

  Girl, Dark, Eyeglasses

  "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Book by Michael Chabon, September 19, 2000.

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• Not only would I never want to belong to any club that would have me for a member--if elected I would wear street shoes onto the squash court and set fire to the ballroom curtains.

  Michael Chabon

  Fire, Shoes, Squash

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Wonder Boys”, p.145, Open Road Media

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• The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart.

  Michael Chabon

  Believe, Heart, Promise

  Michael Chabon (2002). “Summerland”, Miramax

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• [I]n 1938, Superman appeared. He had been mailed to the offices of National Periodical Publications from Cleveland, by a couple of Jewish boys who had imbued him with the powers of a hundred men, of a distant world, and of the full measure of their bespectacled adolescent hopefulness and desperation.

  Michael Chabon

  Couple, Boys, Men

  "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Book by Michael Chabon, 2000.

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• The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass toward the play structure. His mother watched him go, proud, tickled, unaware that every time they toddled away from you, they came back a little different, ten seconds older and nearer to the day when they left you for good. Pearl divers in training, staying under a few seconds longer every time.

  Michael Chabon

  Life, Mother, Boys

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