“He doesn’t know how one proceeds under the circumstances, except with the certainty, pressed to the heart like a keepsake of love, that in the end nothing really matters.”

— Michael Chabon

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

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Novelist, short story writer, essayist 1963

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