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we become the stories we tell ourselves

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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
University Teacher
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Stories
Become
Tell

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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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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 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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This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.
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I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
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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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Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
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a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm
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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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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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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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Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.
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Her cake is a failure, but she is loved anyway. She is loved, she thinks, in more or less the way the gifts will be appreciated: because they have been given with good intentions , because they exist, because they are part of a world in which one wants what one gets.
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. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.
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We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?
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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 seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.
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I have no useful theories about love and marriage.
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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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