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I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
Michael Cunningham
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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
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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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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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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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. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.
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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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Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.
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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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Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.
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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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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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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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It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.
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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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Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?
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Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
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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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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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we become the stories we tell ourselves
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