"Every Messiah fails, the moment he tries to…" — Michael Chabon
"Every Messiah fails, the moment he tries to redeem himself."
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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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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
— Karen Armstrong
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Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail…
— Johann Arndt
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War is what happens when language fails.
— Margaret Atwood
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the…
— Diane Ackerman
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the…
— Teresa of Avila
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I am convinced in my heart and in my mind that if the United States fails to stand with Israel,…
— Michele Bachmann
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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
— Lester Bangs
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High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when…
— Joseph Barbera
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
— Lord Acton
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