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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
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University Teacher
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Life
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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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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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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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This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.
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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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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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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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