Michael Chabon: Citáty v angličtine
“There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.”
Zdroj: Wonder Boys (1995)
“Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon.”
Zdroj: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Zdroj: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Zdroj: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
“Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.”
Part I, ch. 2
Varianta: "Forget about what you are escaping from," he said, quoting an old maxim of Kornblum's. "Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to."
Zdroj: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000)
Zdroj: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Zdroj: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
“Every Messiah fails, writes Litvak, the moment he tries to redeem himself”
Zdroj: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007), Chapter 38
Zdroj: The Yiddish Policemen's Union
“Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.”
Zdroj: Summerland
Zdroj: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
“No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.”
Zdroj: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
“Some things that are invisible and untouchable can nevertheless be seen and felt.”
Zdroj: Summerland
“He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.”
Zdroj: Wonder Boys