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Michael Chabon je americký spisovateľ, ktorý je považovaný za jedného z najtalentovanejších a najvýznamnejších autorov svojej generácie.

✵ 24. máj 1963  •  Ďalšie mená مایکل شیبن
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“All male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey, and ride off after the other in pursuit of illusive glory and questionable adventure.”

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Michael Chabon kniha Wonder Boys

Zdroj: Wonder Boys

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

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Michael Chabon kniha Wonder Boys

Zdroj: Wonder Boys (1995)

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

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Michael Chabon kniha The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Zdroj: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

“In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.”

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Michael Chabon kniha The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Zdroj: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

“The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.”

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Michael Chabon kniha The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Zdroj: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

“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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Michael Chabon kniha Wonder Boys

Zdroj: Wonder Boys

“Never say love is "like" anything… It isn't.”

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Zdroj: The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh

“Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.”

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Michael Chabon kniha The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

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)

“They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving each other”

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Michael Chabon kniha The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Zdroj: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

“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…”

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Michael Chabon kniha 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”

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Michael Chabon kniha The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Zdroj: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007), Chapter 38
Zdroj: The Yiddish Policemen's Union

“I knew that I shouldn't have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my grave is going to require a monument inscribed on all four sides with rueful mottoes, in small characters, set close together.”

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Michael Chabon kniha Wonder Boys

Zdroj: Wonder Boys (1995)

“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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Michael Chabon kniha Wonder Boys

Zdroj: Wonder Boys (1995)

“Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.”

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Michael Chabon kniha Summerland

Zdroj: Summerland

“I don’t mean to make a big deal out of sobriety, by the way. Of all the modes of human consciousness available to the modern consumer I consider it to be the most overrated.”

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Michael Chabon kniha Wonder Boys

Zdroj: Wonder Boys

“The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.”

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Michael Chabon kniha Summerland

Zdroj: Summerland

“Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!”

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Michael Chabon kniha The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

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.”

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Michael Chabon kniha The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Zdroj: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

“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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Michael Chabon kniha Wonder Boys

Zdroj: Wonder Boys

“I said, “I need to hear something that’s going to save my life.”

Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.”

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Michael Chabon kniha Wonder Boys

Zdroj: Wonder Boys

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

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Michael Chabon kniha Summerland

Zdroj: Summerland

“He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged.”

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Michael Chabon kniha Wonder Boys

Zdroj: Wonder Boys (1995)

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

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Michael Chabon kniha Wonder Boys

Zdroj: Wonder Boys

“My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.”

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Michael Chabon kniha The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Zdroj: The Yiddish Policemen's Union

“Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.”

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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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Michael Chabon kniha The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Zdroj: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

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