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You can't find peace by avoiding life.

Michael Cunningham

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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
University Teacher
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Avoiding
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Peace
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Life
Tranquility

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. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.
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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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