Michael Chabon Quotes

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• If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world...? Adventurer
• There was a sort of irony in the fact that these [superhero] characters - many of whom in that period, the Golden Age, had been… Age
• I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman -… Agent
• I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done. Deadline
• Do what you gotta do and stay fly Fly
• Dr. Roboy, in Litvak's measured view, had a vice common to believers: He was all strategy and no tactics. He was prone to move for… All
• Childhood is a branch of cartography. Branch
• She was a natural blonde, with delicate hands and feet, and in her youthful photographs one saw a girl with mocking eyes and a tragic… Adjectives
• I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper… Box
• I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel. Devastating
• 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… All
• Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath. Another Review
• What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach… Approach
• The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness Breath
• He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged. Anywhere
• There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal. Animal
• It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope. Been
• There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would never… Been
• I knew that I shouldn’t have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my… All
• I’m a man who falls in love so easily, and with such reckless lack of consideration for the consequences of my actions, that from the… Action

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