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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.
Michael Cunningham
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Michael Cunningham
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
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Cincinnati
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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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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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Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
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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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Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.
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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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One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
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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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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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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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a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm
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I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
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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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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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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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. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.
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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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