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Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
Michael Cunningham
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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
University Teacher
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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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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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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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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A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if hes any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world.
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Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?
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As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
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I have no useful theories about love and marriage.
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You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.
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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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Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.
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Man, he said, I'm not afraid of graveyards. The dead are just, you know, people who wanted the same things you and I want. What do we want? I asked blurrily. Aw, man, you know, he said. We just want, well, the same things these people wanted. What was that? He shrugged. To live, I guess, he said.
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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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Please, God, send me something to adore.
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Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.
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What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. Everything is gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
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We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?
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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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It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.
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The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
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