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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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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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I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
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Her cake is a failure, but she is loved anyway. She is loved, she thinks, in more or less the way the gifts will be appreciated: because they have been given with good intentions , because they exist, because they are part of a world in which one wants what one gets.
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Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to be that straight?
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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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What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is... It was death. I chose life.
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Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.
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