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It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.

Michael Cunningham

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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
University Teacher
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Fool
Boys
Live
Even
Made
World

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As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
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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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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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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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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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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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You can't find peace by avoiding life.
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The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
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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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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 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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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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You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.
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I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
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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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Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
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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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One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
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we become the stories we tell ourselves
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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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