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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.
Michael Cunningham
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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
Novelist
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University Teacher
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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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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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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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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One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
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We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?
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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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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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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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we become the stories we tell ourselves
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I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
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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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Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.
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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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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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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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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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Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.
Michael Cunningham
I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
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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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