"All male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last……" — Michael Chabon
"All male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey, and ride off after the other in pursuit of illusive glory and questionable adventure."
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127 Quotes by Michael Chabon
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That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.
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A father is a man who fails every day.
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He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat.
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When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still…
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Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.
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The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass toward the play structure. His mother watched…
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The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the…
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He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been…
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I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.
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So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to…
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
— Ansel Adams
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I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
— Christian Bale
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done…
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the…
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