"If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers……" — Michael Chabon
"If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world...?"
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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 Adventurer Quotes
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one of 87 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while…
— James Buchan
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It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers.…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books:…
— Isabel Allende
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That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which…
— Joseph Conrad
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The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
— Ovid
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We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.
— Alexander Eliot
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Chance is the providence of adventurers.
— Laurence Sterne
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I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one…
— H. Rider Haggard
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He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. He had decided, the night before, that he…
— Paulo Coelho
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Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the…
— Jean Batten
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None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with…
— Pearl S. Buck
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