Life Quote by Michael Chabon

“I've always questioned the so-called perfection of surfaces. If you looked close enough, there was always a flaw.”

— Amy Talkington

“behind a very sturdily built and staunchly defended facade of practical, unromantic hard-headedness towards life, there was just that little pool of softness that…

— Isaac Asimov

“I had looked upon it as a simple task, what of the oars, mast, boom, and sprit, to say nothing of plenty of lines.…

— Jack London

“All the things that seemed so exotic and exciting – cars, television, the fashions, the music, the buildings – were just surface. Under it…

— Dave Hutchinson

“I found an additional merit in everything that was in my mind at the moment, in the pink reflection of the tiled roof, the…

— Marcel Proust

“Everything had started in such sharp detail, each aspect pronounced and clear. Obviously, endings were different. Harder to see, full of shapes that could…

— Sarah Dessen

“I should have celebrated my life as it was, imperfections, sadness and all, and not forensically examined its faults. Those faults were largely in…

— Gilly Macmillan

“I had felt my life to be of a dull dead-level mediocrity, with the sense of real and vital things going on round the…

— Marion Milner

“Nature, at its strongest, shaved off mountaintops or threw houses into the air, but it couldn't wash away pain. Everything had limitations.”

— Courtney C. Stevens

“He had forgotten how convincing the world could look, how sure of itself: its outlines and edges; it's gradations, recessions, protrusions; it's startling and…

— Gregory Maguire

“... people really do take on the grime of their associations and actions. It was impregnated in this guy's cells. It never fails. What…

— Laurel Dewey

“They were in no way connected now with nature, with the world of real things, which from now onwards lost all its charm and…

— Marcel Proust