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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?
Michael Cunningham
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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
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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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Please, God, send me something to adore.
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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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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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It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.
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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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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 suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
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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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I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
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