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Michael Cunningham
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
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The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
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We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?
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a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm
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I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
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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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Please, God, send me something to adore.
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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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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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. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.
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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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Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.
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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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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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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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Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.
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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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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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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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..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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