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As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
University Teacher
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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Please, God, send me something to adore.
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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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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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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.
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a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm
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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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I have no useful theories about love and marriage.
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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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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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Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.
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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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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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One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
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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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We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?
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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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I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.
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we become the stories we tell ourselves
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You can't find peace by avoiding 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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