"There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned……" — Michael Chabon

"There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal."

— 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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More Animal Quotes

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will… — Francis of Assisi
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the… — David Attenborough
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know… — David Attenborough
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual… — David Attenborough
I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how… — David Attenborough
I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I… — David Attenborough
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in… — David Attenborough
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware… — David Attenborough

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