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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
Life
Tranquility
Avoiding
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What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. Everything is gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
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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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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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Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.
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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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Her cake is a failure, but she is loved anyway. She is loved, she thinks, in more or less the way the gifts will be appreciated: because they have been given with good intentions , because they exist, because they are part of a world in which one wants what one gets.
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As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
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I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
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. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.
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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 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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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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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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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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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 suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
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Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to be that straight?
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I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.
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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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