"I’d spent my whole life waiting to awake……" — Michael Chabon
"I’d spent my whole life waiting to awake on an ordinary morning in the town that was destined to be my home, in the arms of the woman I was destined to love, knowing the people and doing the work that would make up the changing but essentially invariable landscape of my particular destiny."
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Michael Chabon
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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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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress…
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
— Aristotle
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A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each…
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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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I feel more comfortable when I'm lighter - I sleep better, I snore less, I have more endurance when I…
— Tyra Banks
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the…
— Bob Barr
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When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
— John Barrymore
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A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing…
— Clara Barton
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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human…
— Charles Baudelaire
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For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse…
— Daniel Berrigan
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