Quotes By Person: Michael Chabon

“We have the idea that our hearts, once broken, scar over with an indestructible tissue that prevents their ever breaking again in quite the same place; but as Sammy watched Joe, he felt the heartbreak of that day in 1935 when the Mighty Molecule had gone away for good.”

-The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon

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“'...How are you feeling?'
'All right,' he said. He wiped his nose with the back of his hand, and I saw that he was trying to keep himself from smiling. 'I guess I'm feeling sort of glad I didn't kill myself tonight.'
I stood up and put my hand on his shoulder, and reached out with my other hand to open the door.
'What more could you ask for?' I said.”

-Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon

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“It was in this man's class that I first began to wonder if people who wrote fiction were not suffering from some kind of disorder--from what I've since come to think of...as the midnight disease. The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at every conscious moment its victim--even if she or he writes at dawn, or in the middle of the afternoon--feels like a person lying in a sweltering bedroom, with the window thrown open, looking up at a sky filled with stars and airplanes, listening to the narrative of a rattling blind, an ambulance, a fly trapped in a Coke bottle, while all around him the neighbors soundly sleep. This is in my opinion why writers--like insomniacs--are so accident-prone, so obsessed with the calculus of bad luck and missed opportunities, so liable to rumination and a concomitant inability to let go of a subject, even when urged repeatedly to do so.”

-Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon

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