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Michael Chabon Quotes

Michael Chabon quotes

American Author May 24, 1963

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It was rare but not unheard of for an analysand tossed by tides of transference and desublimation to seek the safety of Dr. Kavalier's doorstep or by contrast inflamed with the special hatred of counter-transference to leave herself there in some desperate condition as a cruel prank like a paper sack of dog turds set afire. Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon quote: "The evening laid its cool palm against his weary brow as if..."
The evening laid its cool palm against his weary brow as if feeling for a temperature. Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon quote: "I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the..."
I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image. Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon quote: "Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of..."
Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam. Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon quote: "Although it wasn't raining anymore, the air was still heavy..."
Although it wasn't raining anymore, the air was still heavy with water, and rain gutters were ringing all over Point Breeze. Michael Chabon
The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place. Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon quote: "People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous..."
People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh. Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon quote: "It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between..."
It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope. Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon quote: "He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered..."
He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew. Michael Chabon
Every day is like a kid's drawing, offered to you with a strange mix of ceremoniousness and offhand disregard, yours for the keeping. Some of the days are rich and complicated, others inscrutable, others little more than a stray gray mark on a ragged page. Some you manage to hang on to, though your reasons for doing so are often hard to fathom. But most of them you just ball up and throw away. Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon quote: "The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or..."
The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart. Michael Chabon
A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints and surmises. Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon quote: "No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would..."
No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief. Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon quote: "That was all very nice of them. They didn't have to do..."
That was all very nice of them. They didn't have to do anything because I wasn't officially involved at all. Michael Chabon
I HAD known him as a bulldozer, as a samurai, as an android programmed to kill, as Plastic Man and Titanium Man and Matter-Eater Lad, as a Buick Electra, as a Peterbilt truck, and even, for a week, as the Mackinac Bridge, but it was as a werewolf that Timothy Stokes finally went too far. Michael Chabon

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