"So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong."

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"So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong."

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"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight."

Barbara Schapiro, American Author

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"The idea of my heart dancing with delight was far too good to pass up."

Tahir Shah, British Author

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"There is no delight in owning anything unshared."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics."

Mary Lou Retton, American Athlete

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"Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing."

Austin Dobson, English Celebrity

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"Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage."

Paul Engle, American Poet

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"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?"

Edmund Spenser, English Poet

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"The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight."

Joseph Joubert, French Writer

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"There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer."

Walter Savage Landor, English Poet

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"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."

William Blake, English Poet

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Explore more quotes by Michael Chabon

"He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to come up with something."

Reinvention

"What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it."

Divorce

"Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story."

Books

"Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath."

Time

"The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem."

Life

"People keep saying, 'Oh, you're getting all these great reviews, that must make you really happy.' I guess it does, but mostly it's just a relief."

People

"I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there."

Family

"It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections."

Reading

"I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel."

Love

"It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far it's been doing pretty well."

Time