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Man, he said, I'm not afraid of graveyards. The dead are just, you know, people who wanted the same things you and I want. What do we want? I asked blurrily. Aw, man, you know, he said. We just want, well, the same things these people wanted. What was that? He shrugged. To live, I guess, he said.

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Michael Cunningham
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
Novelist
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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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It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.
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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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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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I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.
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I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.
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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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We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?
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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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I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
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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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The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
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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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