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Michael Chabon Quotes

Michael Chabon quotes

American Author May 24, 1963

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All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that were told before us and that we have come of age loving--amateurs--we proceed, seeking out the blank places in the map that our favorite writers, in their greatness and negligence, have left for us, hoping to pass on to our own readers--should we be lucky enough to find any--some of the pleasure that we ourselves have taken in... Michael Chabon
I’m a man who falls in love so easily, and with such reckless lack of consideration for the consequences of my actions, that from the very first instant of entering into a marriage I become, almost by definition, an adulterer. Michael Chabon
They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving each other Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon quote: " But he believed that every great love was in some measure a..."
... But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake. Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon quote: "I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary..."
I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel. Michael Chabon
They were little more than boys, and yet while they differed in race, in temperament, and in their understanding of love, they were united in this: The remnant of their boyhood was a ballast they wished to cut away. Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon quote: "As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well..."
As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep. Michael Chabon
My heart was simultaneously broken and filled with lust, I was exhausted, and I loved every minute of it. It was strange and elating to find myself for once the weaker. Michael Chabon
There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would never have been another stanza written about rusting fathers and impotent steelworkers and the Bessemer convertor of love. Michael Chabon
Love great first lines and paragraphs. From The Yiddish Policemen's Union: Nine months Landsman's been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhof without any of his fellow residents managing to get themselves murdered. Now somebody has put a bullet in the brain of the occupant of 208, a yid who was calling himself Emanuel Lasker. Michael Chabon
Live is like falconry," he said. "Don't you think that's true, Cleveland?"Never say love is like anything." said Cleveland. "It isn't. Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon quote: "Never say love is "like" anything... It isn't."
Never say love is "like" anything... It isn't. Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon quote: "Only love could pick a nested pair of steel Bramah locks."
Only love could pick a nested pair of steel Bramah locks. Michael Chabon
The April night on which Sammy felt most aware of the luster of his existence - the moment when, for the first time in his life, he was fully conscious of his own happiness - was a night that he would never discuss with anyone at all. Michael Chabon
And in that moment he felt- for the first time that optimistic and cheerful boy allowed himself to feel- how badly made life was, how flawed. No matter how richly furnished you made it, with all the noise and variet of Something, Nothing always found a way in, seeped through the cracks and patches. Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions lost almost as often as they won and even the best hitters... Michael Chabon

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