"No; he could be ruined again and again……" — Michael Chabon

"No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief."

— Michael Chabon

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127 Quotes by Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon has 127 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.
A father is a man who fails every day.
He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat.
When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still…
Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.
The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass toward the play structure. His mother watched…
The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the…
He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been…
I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.
So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.
Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose…
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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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. — Richard Bach
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief… — Isaac Asimov
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as… — Margaret Atwood
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were… — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel… — Saint Augustine
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. — Saint Augustine
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. — Marcus Aurelius
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,… — Jane Austen
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what… — Richard Bach
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the… — Richard Bach

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