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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
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Cincinnati
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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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This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.
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As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
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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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People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.
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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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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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I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
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Please, God, send me something to adore.
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The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
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I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.
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Any other vexations to report? he asks. I love the word 'vexations.' It's the 'x.' Nice to jump off a 'v' and bite into an 'x' like that. Just the usual ones, she says. How was the weekend? Vexing. Not really, I just wanted to say it. You?
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You can't find peace by avoiding life.
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. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.
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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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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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We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?
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Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?
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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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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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