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Life Quotes by Michael Chabon

46 Life quotes by Michael Chabon

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Entertainment is called a sacred pursuit that can lift the quality of human life when done well. Chabon’s verses also capture odd, vivid moments—like a gust of air from an elephant’s side—alongside personal doubts about decisions and the need for music that feels like a lifeline. These thoughts link humor, self‑reflection, and the power of art to shape daily experience.

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Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.

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“A high point in a life lived at sea level, prone to flooding.”

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“This is our life happening... and it’s happening right now.”

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I said, “I need to hear something that’s going to save my life.” Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.

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“Life blew in gusts from the hole in the side of the elephant with a rank smell and a comic flatulence.”

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“Long life wore away everything that was not essential.”

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The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our…

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He had no idea of how long his life would one day seem to have gone on; how daily present the absence…

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“He felt, and not for the first time today, that he had not made a good decision in his personal or professional…

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“The leaves of this enormous tree, those are the million places where life lives and things happen and creatures come and go.”

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“As I worked to rebuild the ghost town I had made, I felt keenly that my failure to help Timothy was really…

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“Finally I reached into my pocket and flipped a quarter. Heads was Phlox, tails was Arthur. It came up heads. I called…

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“...it had bred false camaraderies and drawn my attention to deep flaws and fault lines when what mattered--what matters so often in…

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“My dear son, It is a puzzle worthy of the best psychiatrist that a human life can be so utterly void and…

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The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly…

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“Do you think they were ever happy?" "Definitely," I said. "Definitely?" "For sure." "She went crazy. His business failed. They couldn't have…

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The problems you have as a novelist tend to have to do with making a living and trying to find ways to…

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“Of all the tricks played by storytellers on their willing victims, the cheapest is the deception known in English as The End.…

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“This was the writer's true doppelgänger, I thought; not some invisible imp of the perverse who watched you from the shadows, periodically…

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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…

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“One of the fundamental axioms of masculine self-regard is that the tools and appurtenances of a man's life must be containable within…

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“The April night on which Sammy felt most aware of the luster of his existence - the moment when, for the first…

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The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball," Peavine's book began, "whether in the stands or on…

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“I hate it that they even count errors,' Ethan said. . . . 'What kind of game is that? No other sport…

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“What would she be saying if she did? That she did want to marry him? For ten years, at least, since she…

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“[A]dventures befall the unadventurous as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are a logical and reliable result - and…

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“I'm disappointed in myself. In my life. All my life, everything I tried, I only got halfway there. You try to take…

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“He thought of his own by-now legendary novel, American Disillusionment, that cyclone which, for years, had woven its erratic path across the…

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“On balance, most of the time, in the ordinary course of life, it was probably best to say what was in your…

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“It was the pleasure that a liar takes in his lie as it enters the world wearing the accent and raiment of…

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“And in that moment he felt- for the first time that optimistic and cheerful boy allowed himself to feel- how badly made…

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“For me the act of marriage has proven, like most of the other disastrous acts of my life, little more than a…

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“I charge you as I was charged. Don't waste your life. Don't allow your body's weakness to be a weakness of your…

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“Those who make their living flirting with catastrophe develop a faculty of pessimistic imagination, of anticipating the worst, that is often all…

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I thought, I fanced, that in a moment, I would be standing on nothing at all, and for the first time in…

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“Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her life. She did not “decorate” it; she infused it.”

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“I didn't want to be left alone with Timothy, not because I was afraid of him but because I was afraid that…

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I’d spent my whole life waiting to awake on an ordinary morning in the town that was destined to be my home,…

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“They had an old-fashioned sincerity...that touched Archy in this time when everything good in life was either synthesised in transgenic cyborg vats…

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“There is one sure means in life of ensuring that you are not ground into paste by disappointment, futility and disillusionment. And…

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