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I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.

Michael Cunningham

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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
University Teacher
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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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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a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm
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. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.
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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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Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.
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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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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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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 can't find peace by avoiding life.
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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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The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
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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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As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
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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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Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.
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Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?
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