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Michael Chabon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 24
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I suppose there is something appealing about a word that everyone uses with absolute confidence but on whose exact meaning no two people can agree. The word that I'm thinking of right now is genre, one of those French words, like crêpe, that no one can pronounce both correctly and without sounding pretentious.
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Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve.
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Bina, thank you. Bina, listen, this guy. His name wasn't Lasker. This guy-' She puts a hand to his mouth. She has not touched him in three years. It probably would be too much to say that he feels the darkness lift at the touch of her fingertips against his lips. But it shivers, and light bleeds in among the cracks.
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I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.
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Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.
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It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing. They had all the measly powers that fifties and sixties male chauvinism could contrive to bestow on a superwoman.
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Every Messiah fails, the moment he tries to redeem himself.
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Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.
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As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.
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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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When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference.
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I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done.
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When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem.
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That evening I rode downtown on an unaccountably empty bus, sitting in the last row. At the front I saw a thin cloud of smoke rising around the driver’s head. ‘Hey, bus driver,’ I said. ‘Can I smoke?’ ‘May I,’ said the bus driver. ‘I love you,’ I said.
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Never say love is like anything... It isn't.
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Not only would I never want to belong to any club that would have me for a member--if elected I would wear street shoes onto the squash court and set fire to the ballroom curtains.
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No he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.
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