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Quotes from Wonder Boys — Michael Chabon

born 1963 United States

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13 quotes

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

Wonder Boys (1995)

Her ankles were wobbling in her tall black pumps, and I saw that it could not be an easy thing to be a drunken transvestite.

Wonder Boys (1995)

A couple of years later I would marry her for a little while.

Wonder Boys (1995)

If Miss Sloviak were not already a transvestite, Crabtree would certainly make her into one.

Wonder Boys (1995)

Every writer has an ideal reader, I thought, and it was just my good luck that mine wanted to sleep with me.

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.

Wonder Boys (1995)

The whiskey tasted like bear steaks and river mud and the flesh of an oak tree. I had another swallow because it tasted so good.

Wonder Boys (1995)

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.

Wonder Boys (1995)

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

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...

Wonder Boys (1995)

Eight solid light-years of lead...is the thickness of that metal in which you would need to encase yourself if you wanted to keep from being touched by neutrinos. I guess the little fuckers are everywhere.

Wonder Boys (1995)

I'm a man who falls in love so easily, and with such a reckless lack of consideration for the consequences of my actions, that from the very first instant of entering into a marriage I become, almost by definition, an adulterer.

Wonder Boys (1995)

...as with most redheaded women what beauty she possessed was protean and odd.

Wonder Boys (1995)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michael Chabon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.