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Michael Chabon, né le 24 mai 1963 à Washington DC aux États-Unis, est un écrivain, essayiste et scénariste américain. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. mai 1963  •  Autres noms مایکل شیبن
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Michael Chabon: Citations en anglais

“I had a certain cetacean delicacy of movement in the wide open sea of a hundred-yard field…”

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Michael Chabon livre Wonder Boys

Wonder Boys (1995)

“The problem, if anything, was precisely the opposite. I had too much to write: too many fine and miserable buildings to construct and streets to name and clock towers to set chiming, too many characters to raise up from the dirt like flowers whose petals I peeled down to the intricate frail organs within, too many terrible genetic and fiduciary secrets to dig up and bury and dig up again, too many divorces to grant, heirs to disinherit, trysts to arrange, letters to misdirect into evil hands, innocent children to slay with rheumatic fever, women to leave unfulfilled and hopeless, men to drive to adultery and theft, fires to ignite at the hearts of ancient houses.”

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Michael Chabon livre Wonder Boys

Wonder Boys (1995)

“As a lifelong habit of marijuana I was used to having even the most dreadful phenomena prove, on further inspection, to be only the figments of my paranoid fancy…”

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Michael Chabon livre Wonder Boys

Wonder Boys (1995)

“Litvak knew that charisma was a real if indefinable quality, a chemical fire that certain half-fortunate men gave off. Like any fire or talent, it was amoral, unconnected to goodness or wickedness, power or usefulness or strength.”

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Source: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007), Chapter 39

“Yes, all right, Landsman understands, so go shit in the ocean, that he made not the right but the only choice. He understands that the necessity of covering up for the dark deeds of the boys in the top drawer is one that nozzes have been making into a virtue since the dawn of police work.”

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Source: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007), Chapter 45

“Every generation loses the messiah it has failed to deserve.”

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Michael Chabon

Source: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007), Chapter 23

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