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This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.

Michael Cunningham

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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
University Teacher
Writer
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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It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.
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I have no useful theories about love and marriage.
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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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Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
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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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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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The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.
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Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?
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I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
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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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we become the stories we tell ourselves
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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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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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Please, God, send me something to adore.
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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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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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The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
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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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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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