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But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.
Michael Cunningham
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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
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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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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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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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Please, God, send me something to adore.
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As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
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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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One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
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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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Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.
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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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You could say I don't want for me be seen primarily as a gay writer. I've never hidden my sexuality. It matters that I'm gay, it matters that I'm white, it matters that I'm male, it matters that I'm American. But basically it's just less and less of a big deal.
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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 don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
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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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..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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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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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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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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. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.
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