Michael Chabon Quotes
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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 curious chance that comes to feel, after we have finished and fallen in love with the book, like the workings of a secret purpose. Of all the enchantments of beloved books the most mysterious-the most phantasmal-is the way they always seem to come our way precisely when we need them.
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Along the way, he or she discovers that the world has been broken for as long as anyone can remember. Everyone, sooner or later, gets a thorough schooling in brokenness. The question becomes what to do with the pieces?
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For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.
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Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars.
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Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.
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Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.
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Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.
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Never say love is "like" anything... It isn't.
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Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes me truly happy to be a reader.
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It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.
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Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.