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Michael Cunningham quotes: She'd never been religious. She hadn't allowed grief to send her crawling to the church. She'd never been religious. She hadn't allowed grief to send her crawling to the church.
Michael Cunningham quotes: She has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she thinks, is wrong with her. She has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she thinks, is wrong with her.
Michael Cunningham quotes: There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be. There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
Michael Cunningham quotes: It seems that she can survive, she can prosper, if she has London around her. It seems that she can survive, she can prosper, if she has London around her.
Michael Cunningham quotes: I've been just wondering lately, if this is, you know, it. An apartment and a steady job and some people to love. What more could I want? I've been just wondering lately, if this is, you know, it. An apartment and a steady job and some people to love. What more could I want?
Michael Cunningham quotes: The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things. The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Our hopes may seem unrealized, but we were in all likelihood hoping for the wrong thing. Our hopes may seem unrealized, but we were in all likelihood hoping for the wrong thing.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Welcome to the darker side of love. Welcome to the darker side of love.
Michael Cunningham quotes: A writer should always feel like he's in over his head A writer should always feel like he's in over his head
Michael Cunningham quotes: The point of sex is... Sex doesn't have a point. The point of sex is...
Sex doesn't have a point.
Michael Cunningham quotes: The art we produce lives in queasy balance with the art we can imagine the art the room expects. The art we produce lives in queasy balance with the art we can imagine the art the room expects.
Michael Cunningham quotes: This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand. This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.
Michael Cunningham quotes: In heaven, Lucas would be beautiful. He'd speak a language everyone understood. In heaven, Lucas would be beautiful. He'd speak a language everyone understood.
Michael Cunningham quotes: There's no comfort, it seems, in the world of objects. There's no comfort, it seems, in the world of objects.
Michael Cunningham quotes: You can't find peace by avoiding life. You can't find peace by avoiding life.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Beauty is a whore, I like money better. Beauty is a whore, I like money better.
Michael Cunningham quotes: I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous. I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Heaven only knows why we love it so. Heaven only knows why we love it so.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Parents are the mystified criminals, blinking in the docks, making it all the worse for themselves with every word they utter. Parents are the mystified criminals, blinking in the docks, making it all the worse for themselves with every word they utter.
Michael Cunningham quotes: I had blundered again, obscurely, and rather than go on worrying over my behavior, I decided to just give in and dislike Alice. I had blundered again, obscurely, and rather than go on worrying over my behavior, I decided to just give in and dislike Alice.
Michael Cunningham quotes: You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally. You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Have faith that you will be here, recognizable to yourself, again tomorrow. Have faith that you will be here, recognizable to yourself, again tomorrow.
Michael Cunningham quotes: I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful. I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.
Michael Cunningham quotes: It is the Morocco of America, the New Orleans of the north. It is the Morocco of America, the New Orleans of the north.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself. Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.
Michael Cunningham quotes: You don't necessarily meet a lot of people in this world. Not when you let yourself get distracted by music and the passing of hours. You don't necessarily meet a lot of people in this world. Not when you let yourself get distracted by music and the passing of hours.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Barrett strokes one of the chair's slick, bile-green arms. "You can get attached to just about anything, can't you?" he says. Barrett strokes one of the chair's slick, bile-green arms. "You can get attached to just about anything, can't you?" he says.
Michael Cunningham quotes: I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds. I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds.
Michael Cunningham quotes: You live with the threat of my extinction. I live with it too. You live with the threat of my extinction. I live with it too.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity. Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.
Michael Cunningham quotes: A celestial light appeared to Barrett Meeks in the sky over Central Park, four days after Barrett had been mauled, once again, by love. A celestial light appeared to Barrett Meeks in the sky over Central Park, four days after Barrett had been mauled, once again, by love.
Michael Cunningham quotes: He is still, at times, astonished by her. She may be the most intelligent woman in England, he thinks. Her books may be read for centuries. He is still, at times, astonished by her. She may be the most intelligent woman in England, he thinks. Her books may be read for centuries.
Michael Cunningham quotes: we become the stories we tell ourselves we become the stories we tell ourselves
Michael Cunningham quotes: My little girl, oh, the daughter I never had. Now tell me, angel, are you fucking anybody new? My little girl, oh, the daughter I never had. Now tell me, angel, are you fucking anybody new?
Michael Cunningham quotes: Most of us can be counted on to manage our own undoings. Most of us can be counted on to manage our own undoings.
Michael Cunningham quotes: What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run. What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.
Michael Cunningham quotes: I know you. I've seen it. And, knowing all, I release you. I know you. I've seen it. And, knowing all, I release you.
Michael Cunningham quotes: He makes her think sometimes of a mouse singing amorous ballads under the window of a giantess. He makes her think sometimes of a mouse singing amorous ballads under the window of a giantess.
Michael Cunningham quotes: She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it. She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it.
Michael Cunningham quotes: 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? 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?
Michael Cunningham quotes: This, Barrett Meeks, is your work. You witness, and compile. You persevere. This, Barrett Meeks, is your work. You witness, and compile. You persevere.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Remember, Peter: you are some hybrid of friend and hired help. You have latitude, but you can't get uppity. Remember, Peter: you are some hybrid of friend and hired help. You have latitude, but you can't get uppity.
Michael Cunningham quotes: We always worry about the wrong things, don't we? We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?
Michael Cunningham quotes: A full week of their mother's quiet fury over the fun they don't seem to be having and their father's dogged attempts to provide it ... A full week of their mother's quiet fury over the fun they don't seem to be having and their father's dogged attempts to provide it ...
Michael Cunningham quotes: You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes. You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.
Michael Cunningham quotes: What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story? What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story?
Michael Cunningham quotes: Please, God, send me something to adore. Please, God, send me something to adore.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Fearlessness in the face of your own ineptitude is a useful tool to have. Fearlessness in the face of your own ineptitude is a useful tool to have.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Who was it who said, the worst thing you can imagine is probably what's already happening? Shrink phrase. Not untrue, though. Who was it who said, the worst thing you can imagine is probably what's already happening? Shrink phrase. Not untrue, though.
Michael Cunningham quotes: I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end. But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end. But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful. Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.
Michael Cunningham quotes: You have failed in the most base and human of waysyou have not imagined the lives of others. You have failed in the most base and human of ways
you have not imagined the lives of others.
Michael Cunningham quotes: What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half. What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.
Michael Cunningham quotes: End of story. 'Happily ever after' fell on everyone like a guillotine's blade. End of story. 'Happily ever after' fell on everyone like a guillotine's blade.
Michael Cunningham quotes: I'm just a child who's learned to impersonate an adult. I'm just a child who's learned to impersonate an adult.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Zoe loved Trancas's mother. She respected her exhausted and ironic hope for rebirth. Zoe loved Trancas's mother. She respected her exhausted and ironic hope for rebirth.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Insomniacs know better than anyone how it would be to haunt a house. Insomniacs know better than anyone how it would be to haunt a house.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Venture too far for love ... and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself. You end up just sailing from port to port. Venture too far for love ... and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself. You end up just sailing from port to port.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become? Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become?
Michael Cunningham quotes: If you live in certain places, in a certain way, you'd better learn to praise the small felicities. If you live in certain places, in a certain way, you'd better learn to praise the small felicities.
Michael Cunningham quotes: One of the reasons ordinary people are incapable of magic is simple dearth of conviction. One of the reasons ordinary people are incapable of magic is simple dearth of conviction.
Michael Cunningham quotes: He seemed to believe that from such humble, inert elements as flour, shortening, and drab little envelopes of yeast, life itself could be produced. He seemed to believe that from such humble, inert elements as flour, shortening, and drab little envelopes of yeast, life itself could be produced.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Isn't the universe full of gaseous elements?"Andrew says, "Yeah, there are gases and neutrinos and this shit they call dark matter. Isn't the universe full of gaseous elements?"
Andrew says, "Yeah, there are gases and neutrinos and this shit they call dark matter.
Michael Cunningham quotes: He's filled with a sense of childish release, the old feeling that because you are sick, all your trials and obligations have been suspended. He's filled with a sense of childish release, the old feeling that because you are sick, all your trials and obligations have been suspended.
Michael Cunningham quotes: One of the troubles with love is, you can't talk about it without feeling like you keep cueing old songs. One of the troubles with love is, you can't talk about it without feeling like you keep cueing old songs.
Michael Cunningham quotes: That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could happen, anything at all. That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could happen, anything at all.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am. Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.
Michael Cunningham quotes: He moved in a world of chaos of self, fearful and astonished to be here, right here, alive in a pine-paneled bedroom. He moved in a world of chaos of self, fearful and astonished to be here, right here, alive in a pine-paneled bedroom.
Michael Cunningham quotes: I sometimes wonder how you live with such a modest sense of romance," Barrett says. "Superstition and romance are not the same thing. I sometimes wonder how you live with such a modest sense of romance," Barrett says. "Superstition and romance are not the same thing.
Michael Cunningham quotes: People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two. People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.
Michael Cunningham quotes: God save us from people who think they're smarter than they actually are. God save us from people who think they're smarter than they actually are.
Michael Cunningham quotes: As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers. As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Visions are answers. Answers imply questions. It Visions are answers. Answers imply questions. It
Michael Cunningham quotes: That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other. That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.
Michael Cunningham quotes: It's remarkable, being alive. It's remarkable, being alive.
Michael Cunningham quotes: 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. 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.
Michael Cunningham quotes: The secret of flight is this you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws. The secret of flight is this
you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.
Michael Cunningham quotes: He felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting. He felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.
Michael Cunningham quotes: I was not beautiful, but I believed I had the possibility of beauty in me. I was not beautiful, but I believed I had the possibility of beauty in me.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper. Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper.
Michael Cunningham quotes: But magic is sometimes all about knowing where the secret door is, and how to open it. With that, you're gone But magic is sometimes all about knowing where the secret door is, and how to open it. With that, you're gone
Michael Cunningham quotes: You don't have to matter any more than you do right now. You don't have to matter any more than you do right now.
Michael Cunningham quotes: She wants to have baked a cake that banishes sorrow, even if only for a little while. She wants to have baked a cake that banishes sorrow, even if only for a little while.
Michael Cunningham quotes: One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper. One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
Michael Cunningham quotes: This is a Southern gift, isn't it - tremendous self-regard diluted with humor and modesty. That's what they mean by Southern charm, right? This is a Southern gift, isn't it - tremendous self-regard diluted with humor and modesty. That's what they mean by Southern charm, right?
Michael Cunningham quotes: 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. 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.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Who has more power than a child? She can be as cruel as she wants to be. He can't. Who has more power than a child? She can be as cruel as she wants to be. He can't.
Michael Cunningham quotes: I think pretty much everybody who says he needs money really and truly needs money. I think pretty much everybody who says he needs money really and truly needs money.
Michael Cunningham quotes: She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric. She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.
Michael Cunningham quotes: What did Shakespeare say? Or little lives are rounded with a sleep. What did Shakespeare say? Or little lives are rounded with a sleep.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Beauty is a whore. I prefer money. Beauty is a whore. I prefer money.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest. Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Youth is the only sexy tragedy. Youth is the only sexy tragedy.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Here, then, is the last moment of true perception, a man fishing in a red jacket and a cloudy sky reflected on opaque water. Here, then, is the last moment of true perception, a man fishing in a red jacket and a cloudy sky reflected on opaque water.
Michael Cunningham quotes: I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years. I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.
Michael Cunningham quotes: You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard. You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.
Michael Cunningham quotes: I used to want to be a cheerleader," I told them. "Before I decided to just go to hell. I used to want to be a cheerleader," I told them. "Before I decided to just go to hell.
Michael Cunningham quotes: Mizzy has, again, wandered into the garden, like a child who feels no fealty to adult conversation. Mizzy has, again, wandered into the garden, like a child who feels no fealty to adult conversation.
Michael Cunningham quotes: He knows about damage the way a woman does. He knows, the way a woman knows, how to carry on as if nothing's wrong. He knows about damage the way a woman does. He knows, the way a woman knows, how to carry on as if nothing's wrong.
Michael Cunningham quotes: She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

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