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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
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Seems
Every
Years
Approximately
Produce
Seem
Novel
Three

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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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Man, he said, I'm not afraid of graveyards. The dead are just, you know, people who wanted the same things you and I want. What do we want? I asked blurrily. Aw, man, you know, he said. We just want, well, the same things these people wanted. What was that? He shrugged. To live, I guess, he said.
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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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It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.
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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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. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.
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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 revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.
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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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There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.
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We’d hoped for love of a different kind, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander ideas of ourselves.
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The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
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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 have no useful theories about love and marriage.
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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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Please, God, send me something to adore.
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a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm
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I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
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