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. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.
Michael Cunningham
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Michael Cunningham
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
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There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.
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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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As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
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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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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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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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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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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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..this indiscriminate love feels entirely serious to her, as if everything in the world is part of a vast, inscrutable intention and everything in the world has its own secret name, a name that cannot be conveyed in language but is simply the sight and feel of the thing itself.
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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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Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
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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 suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
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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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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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We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?
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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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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 seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.
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