Michael Chabon Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
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Winning the NFC championship affords you a chance at the next opportunity.
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The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
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Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.
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The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.
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I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?
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I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live; there's a different energy about living in the city.
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.
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For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chance to really act emotionally, because the situation is an extreme one.
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If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
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My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious.
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It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.
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The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.
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I find this curious - two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are ok.
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You won't see us at one of these for many, many years. We won't see you for a long time. I mean it. It's going to be years before we have the chance to say this again.
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
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Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.
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Play slow and perfect - that’s the way to becoming a virtuoso.
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I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.
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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.
