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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: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
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Cincinnati
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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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It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.
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You can't find peace by avoiding life.
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I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
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We’d hoped for love of a different kind, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander ideas of ourselves.
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I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.
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You could say I don't want for me be seen primarily as a gay writer. I've never hidden my sexuality. It matters that I'm gay, it matters that I'm white, it matters that I'm male, it matters that I'm American. But basically it's just less and less of a big deal.
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The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.
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Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write.
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I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.
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There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.
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This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.
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Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give.
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The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
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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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People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.
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