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I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
Michael Cunningham
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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
Novelist
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Cincinnati
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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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Please, God, send me something to adore.
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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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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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It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of 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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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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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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One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
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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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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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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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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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As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
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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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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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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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a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm
Michael Cunningham
Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.
Michael Cunningham
I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
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