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Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
University Teacher
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
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Surprisingly
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Dead
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I have no useful theories about love and marriage.
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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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I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
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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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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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You can't find peace by avoiding life.
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Any other vexations to report? he asks. I love the word 'vexations.' It's the 'x.' Nice to jump off a 'v' and bite into an 'x' like that. Just the usual ones, she says. How was the weekend? Vexing. Not really, I just wanted to say it. You?
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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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Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.
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But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.
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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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Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.
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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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Please, God, send me something to adore.
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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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Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.
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The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
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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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What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.
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