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Part I, ch. 2
Вариант: "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."
Источник: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000)

“It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.”

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Michael Chabon

“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 книга The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Источник: 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 книга The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Источник: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

“Every Messiah fails, writes Litvak, the moment he tries to redeem himself”

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Michael Chabon книга The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Источник: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007), Chapter 38
Источник: 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 книга Wonder Boys

Источник: 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 книга Wonder Boys

Источник: Wonder Boys (1995)

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

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Michael Chabon книга Summerland

Источник: 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 книга Wonder Boys

Источник: 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 книга Summerland

Источник: 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 книга The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Источник: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

“All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.”

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Michael Chabon

“No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.”

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Michael Chabon книга The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Источник: 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 книга Wonder Boys

Источник: 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 книга Wonder Boys

Источник: Wonder Boys

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

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Michael Chabon книга Summerland

Источник: 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 книга Wonder Boys

Источник: 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 книга Wonder Boys

Источник: 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 книга The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Источник: 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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Michael Chabon

“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 книга The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Источник: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh