"[I]n 1938, Superman appeared. He had been mailed to the offices of National Periodical Publications from Cleveland, by a couple of Jewish boys who had imbued him with the powers of a hundred men, of a distant world, and of the full measure of their bespectacled adolescent hopefulness and desperation."

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Source : "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Book by Michael Chabon, 2000.

Michael Chabon

#Couple Quotes #Boys Quotes #Men Quotes

“You may be surprised to learn that, in our law, although the fetus is currently without the right to life, it does have some rights. For instance, under civil law, the unborn child has the right to inherit part of his father's estate should his father die before he is born, and he has the right to sue his Mother, or a doctor, for injuiries sustained while in the womb.”
“Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.”
“Material things aren't important to me.”
“Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.”
“It's not what the dream is but what the dream does.”
“Peter Mandelson is the only man I know who can skulk in broad daylight.”

Source : "Sports Coverage? It's Not Cricket". www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.
“Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.”
“And is it not the chief good of money, the being free from the need of thinking of it?”

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