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He had no idea of how long his life would one day seem to have gone on how daily present the absence of love would come to feel. “Just watch me,” he said.
Michael Chabon
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Michael Chabon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 24
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Procrastination is something you do yourself. You know: I gotta sharpen these pencils before I start. I got 20 pencils, they're looking kinda dull. Well, the pencils aren't calling you and alluring you and inviting you and offering you anything. They're just sitting there. You're the one who's procrastinating.
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I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear.
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When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference.
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I said, “I need to hear something that’s going to save my life.” Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.
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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.
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So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.
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I'm never going to be a Tom Clancy. And I wouldn't really want to be - not that I have anything against him, and I wish him continued success - because that's not why I'm writing novels. I'm doing it because I have to. I feel like I have to, anyway.
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If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world...?
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Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir.
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