“[I]f neuroses were swimming pools one might, like Cheever's swimmer, steer a course from my house to the city limits and never touch dry land.”
The Mysteries of Berkeley (March 2002)
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Michael Chabon 96
Novelist, short story writer, essayist 1963Related quotes
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“He who constantly swims in the ocean loves dry land.”
Letter to E.M. Shavrova (September 16, 1891)
Letters
“The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.”
Source: Eternal Life: A New Vision: Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven and Hell
“Isn’t making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?”
Poems and Ballads (1866-89), The Triumph of Time
Context: p>It is not much that a man can save
On the sands of life, in the straits of time,
Who swims in sight of the great third wave
That never a swimmer shall cross or climb.
Some waif washed up with the strays and spars
That ebb-tide shows to the shore and the stars;
Weed from the water, grass from a grave,
A broken blossom, a ruined rhyme.There will no man do for your sake, I think,
What I would have done for the least word said.
I had wrung life dry for your lips to drink,
Broken it up for your daily bread:
Body for body and blood for blood,
As the flow of the full sea risen to flood
That yearns and trembles before it sink,
I had given, and lain down for you, glad and dead.</p
Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1827/mar/13/criminal-laws-consolidation-bills#column_1156 in the House of Commons (13 March 1827) on the consolidation of the criminal law
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