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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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Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.
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On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.
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Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.
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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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. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.
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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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As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
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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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It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.
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I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.
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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 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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I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
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Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
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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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we become the stories we tell ourselves
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I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.
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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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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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