What did Michael Chabon mean by: … But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake. Michael Chabon Author · USA Copy
+ A father is a man who fails every day. Author, August 7, 2023January 2, 2025, Michael Chabon, Failure, Imperfection, Parenthood, 0 Michael Chabon Author · USA
No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Michael Chabon, Belief, Hope, Ruin, 0 Michael Chabon Author · USA
+ Man makes plans . . . and God laughs. Read explanation Author, August 26, 2023January 2, 2025, Michael Chabon, Control, Fate, Humor, 0 Michael Chabon Author · USA
For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. … I think it’s just a natural human response to loss. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Michael Chabon, Emotion, Loss, Nostalgia, 0 Michael Chabon Author · USA
Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Michael Chabon, Disregard, Felicity, 0 Michael Chabon Author · USA
There’s nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Michael Chabon, Animals, Embarrassment, Perception, 0 Michael Chabon Author · USA
Writers, unlike most people, tell their best lies when they are alone. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Michael Chabon, Creativity, Deception, Isolation, 0 Michael Chabon Author · USA
+ Only love could pick a nested pair of steel Bramah locks. Author, October 13, 2023January 2, 2025, Michael Chabon, Love, Security, Strength, 0 Michael Chabon Author · USA
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I’m not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. William Morris Designer · England
It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France