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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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Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.
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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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It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.
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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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We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?
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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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One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
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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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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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..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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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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Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it. To love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard. Always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.
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I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
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I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.
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I have no useful theories about love and marriage.
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