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One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
Michael Cunningham
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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
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a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm
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Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it. To love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard. Always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.
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There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined.
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Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.
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