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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.
Michael Cunningham
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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
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Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
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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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Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.
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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 don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
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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.
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