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Time Quotes by Michael Chabon

42 Time quotes by Michael Chabon

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Michael Chabon reflects on moments of regret and disappointment that linger after choices. He suggests that even crushing boredom can spark unexpected creativity, especially when shared with others. He also paints scenes where love is felt in the quiet rhythm of heartbeats and breaths.

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Every Messiah fails, the moment he tries to redeem himself.

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“And that was when you realized the fire was inside you all the time. And that was the miracle. Just that.”

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Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath.

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He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.

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“this one-way rocket to Death in Adulthood" "Normal Time" in New California Writing”

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“I anticipate a coming season of dilated time and of women all in disarray.”

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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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“Accurate prediction of the future, of its technologies and traumas, has always seemed to me to be the least interesting thing about…

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“For the only true sequel is the one that flickers briefly into being in your mind, O my friend by the fireside,…

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“My grandparents forgave each other with the pragmatism of lovers in a plummeting airplane. There would be ample time for reproach in…

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“But Josef, like many boys of nineteen, was under the misapprehension that his heart had been broken a number of times, and…

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The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love…

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“Although in the past I had seen a few exchanges of genuine affection between them, the Warshaw men were awkward and ill…

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“That was how troubles arrived, mourners rushing the bar at a wake. Though they came in funereal flocks, they could be dismissed…

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“and that was when Sam Clay experienced a moment of global vision, one which he would afterward come to view as the…

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“But there is no Messiah of Sitka. Landsman has no home, no future, no fate but Bina. The land that he and…

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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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“The fundamental purpose of storytelling is to pass the time, which is infinite, slow, and weighs heavy in our hands. When the…

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“The shaping of a golem, to him, was a gesture of hope, offered against hope, in a time of desperation. It was…

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I feel that in the past, my style has shown itself to be capable of handling dark and light in the same…

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The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn,…

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Novelist time is reptile time; novelists tend to be ruminant and brooding, nursers of ancient grievances, second-guessers, Tuesday afternoon quarterbacks, retrospectators, endlessly,…

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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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“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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“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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“There had been a time in high school, see, when I wrestled with the possibility that I might be gay, a torturous…

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“Approaching the Williamsburg Bridge - not really certain of how he had managed to find himself there - he experienced an extraordinary…

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“Sooner or later, you will discover which kind of father you are, and at that moment you will, with perfect horror, recognize…

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“The shaping of a golem, to him, was a gesture of hope, offered against hope, in a time of desperation. It was…

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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…

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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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“It was not an inordinately large ass, yet the heft of it seemed to connect him to an immense source of gravitation,…

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“Like the Party he had joined too late, too young, Chan was a lost claim check, a series of time lapse photos…

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They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and…

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“Every future we imagine is transformed inexorably into a part of our children's understanding of their past, of the assumptions their parents…

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“Anyone who has spent time in the company of small children knows that a crushing boredom can unlock great powers of invention.”

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“The past was irretrievable, the league of lonely men a fiction, the pursuit of the past a doomed attempt to run a…

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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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It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going…

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“Even the most casual study of the record...would show that strange times to be a Jew have almost always been, as well,…

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“Love great first lines and paragraphs. From The Yiddish Policemen's Union: Nine months Landsman's been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhof without any of his…

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

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…

That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.

Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at…

“For as long as I could remember, I'd been making vague and confident assurances that any day I would finish the thing [my book].…