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I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.

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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..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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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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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 just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
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These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect everybody's little display of genius.
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As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
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. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.
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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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we become the stories we tell ourselves
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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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One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
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But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.
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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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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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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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