"Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy……" — Michael Chabon
"Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon."
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127 Quotes by Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon has 127 quotes on this site.
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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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Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose…
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Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives the way Milo’s tollbooth appears, an inexplicable gift, cast up by some…
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More Dainty Quotes
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Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with…
— Pope Leo XII
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We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands…
— Mark Twain
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It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to…
— Mignon McLaughlin
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People always think I’m dainty when they meet me, but I’m really not. I’m very German – we’re not made…
— Diane Kruger
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Everything I do is inspired by my early life”, Bourgeois’ looked up to her mother who was the most important…
— Louise Bourgeois
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There's times to be dainty and times to be a pig.
— Doug Stanhope
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So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their…
— Unknown Author
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water…
— Anthony Trollope
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Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg.
— Robert Herrick
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Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals,…
— Charles Dickens
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Women are of two sorts. Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of…
— Unknown Author
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