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Please, God, send me something to adore.

Michael Cunningham

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Michael Cunningham
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
Novelist
Poet
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University Teacher
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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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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I have no useful theories about love and marriage.
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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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On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.
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The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
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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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One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
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I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
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. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.
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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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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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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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Any other vexations to report? he asks. I love the word 'vexations.' It's the 'x.' Nice to jump off a 'v' and bite into an 'x' like that. Just the usual ones, she says. How was the weekend? Vexing. Not really, I just wanted to say it. You?
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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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We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?
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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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You can't find peace by avoiding life.
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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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