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Please, God, send me something to adore.

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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Adore

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The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
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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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I have no useful theories about love and marriage.
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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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Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.
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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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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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a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm
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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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..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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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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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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What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.
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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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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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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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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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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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I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
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A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if hes any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world.
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