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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
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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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Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.
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we become the stories we tell 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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I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.
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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 just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
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I am beginning to understand the true difference between youth and age. Young people have time to make plans and think of new ideas. Older people need their whole energy to keep up with what’s already been set in motion.
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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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The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
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You can't find peace by avoiding life.
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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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Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?
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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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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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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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a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm
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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.
Michael Cunningham
Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.
Michael Cunningham
