# Quote — Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys

> The young men listen dutifully, for the most part, and from time to time some of them even take the trouble to go over to the college library, and dig up one or another of his novels, and crouch there, among the stacks, flipping impatiently through the pages, looking for parts that sound true.

- Author: [Michael Chabon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-chabon.md)
- Book: [Wonder Boys](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-chabon/wonder-boys.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-chabon/wonder-boys/the-young-men

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> I knew that I shouldn't have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my grave is going to require a monument inscribed on all four sides with rueful mottoes, in small characters, set close together.

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