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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
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
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One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
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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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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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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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These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect everybody's little display of genius.
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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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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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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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we become the stories we tell ourselves
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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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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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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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I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been told only one story, over and over. Like most children, they believe in an easily identifiable good and evil, and like most children, they are capable of unthinkable cruelty.
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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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I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
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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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Please, God, send me something to adore.
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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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