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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.
Michael Cunningham
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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
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Cincinnati
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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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Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.
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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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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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I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
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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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There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.
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I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.
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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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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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We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?
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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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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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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 have no useful theories about love and marriage.
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Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
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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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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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The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
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