Michael Chabon Short Quotes

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"I feel great," I said, trying to decide how I did feel.

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Every generation loses the messiah it has failed to deserve.

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A couple of years later I would marry her for a little while.

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It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.

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Writers, unlike most people, tell their best lies when
they are alone.

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Every Messiah fails, writes Litvak, the moment he tries to redeem himself

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He didn't want to be what he wasn't, he didn't know how to be what he was.

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Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir.

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But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake.

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... as with most redheaded women what beauty she possessed was protean and odd.

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Some things that are invisible and untouchable can nevertheless be seen and felt.

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Are you mocking the concept?
Not necessary, Berko says. The concept mocks itself.

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

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If Miss Sloviak were not already a transvestite, Crabtree would certainly make her into one.

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Where passion is married to intelligence, you may find genius, neurosis, madness or rapture.

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I had a certain cetacean delicacy of movement in the wide open sea of a hundred-yard field...

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Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon.

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And because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second.

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He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.

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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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He's too superstitious not to see this as a bad omen, but when you're a pessimist, all omens are bad.

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A Messiah who actually arrives is no good to anybody. A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.

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But the first lie in the series is the one you make with the greatest trepidation and the heaviest heart.

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Every writer has an ideal reader, I thought, and it was just my good luck that mine wanted to sleep with me.

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The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart.

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Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.

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Her ankles were wobbling in her tall black pumps, and I saw that it could not be an easy thing to be a drunken transvestite.

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See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation.

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The whiskey tasted like bear steaks and river mud and the flesh of an oak tree. I had another swallow because it tasted so good.

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It was nice standing out in the darkness, in the damp grass, with spring coming on and a feeling in my heart of imminent disaster.

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