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She'd never been religious. She hadn't allowed grief to send her crawling to the church.
— Michael Cunningham
I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.
— Michael Cunningham
She has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she thinks, is wrong with her.
— Michael Cunningham
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
— Michael Cunningham
It seems that she can survive, she can prosper, if she has London around her.
— Michael Cunningham
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
The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
— Michael Cunningham
CUNNINGHAM. Publicist at Regis McKenna's firm who handled Apple in the early Macintosh years. MICHAEL EISNER. Hard-driving
— Walter Isaacson
Our hopes may seem unrealized, but we were in all likelihood hoping for the wrong thing.
— Michael Cunningham
Welcome to the darker side of love.
— Michael Cunningham
A writer should always feel like he's in over his head
— Michael Cunningham
There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.
— Michael Cunningham
The point of sex is... Sex doesn't have a point. — Michael Cunningham
The art we produce lives in queasy balance with the art we can imagine the art the room expects.
— Michael Cunningham
This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.
— Michael Cunningham
a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm
— Michael Cunningham
I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
— Michael Cunningham
Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.
— Michael Cunningham
You can't find peace by avoiding life.
— Michael Cunningham
Beauty is a whore, I like money better.
— Michael Cunningham
I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
— Michael Cunningham
Heaven only knows why we love it so.
— Michael Cunningham
Parents are the mystified criminals, blinking in the docks, making it all the worse for themselves with every word they utter.
— Michael Cunningham
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
It's better, really, to go out in a blaze. That's why we love Marilyn, and James Dean. We love the ones who walk right into the fire.
— Michael Cunningham
You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally.
— Michael Cunningham
Have faith that you will be here, recognizable to yourself, again tomorrow.
— Michael Cunningham
I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.
— Michael Cunningham
It is the Morocco of America, the New Orleans of the north.
— Michael Cunningham
Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.
— Michael Cunningham
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
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
You live with the threat of my extinction. I live with it too.
— Michael Cunningham
This, Barrett Meeks, is your work. You witness, and compile. You persevere.
— Michael Cunningham
She wants to have baked a cake that banishes sorrow, even if only for a little while.
— Michael Cunningham
You don't have to matter any more than you do right now.
— Michael Cunningham
Beauty is a whore. I prefer money.
— Michael Cunningham
One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
— Michael Cunningham
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
Sometimes the fabric that separates us tears just enough for love to shine through. Sometimes the tear is surprisingly small.
— Michael Cunningham
My little girl, oh, the daughter I never had. Now tell me, angel, are you fucking anybody new?
— Michael Cunningham
You have failed in the most base and human of waysyou have not imagined the lives of others. — Michael Cunningham
we become the stories we tell ourselves
— Michael Cunningham
Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.
— Michael Cunningham
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
I know you. I've seen it. And, knowing all, I release you.
— Michael Cunningham
He makes her think sometimes of a mouse singing amorous ballads under the window of a giantess.
— Michael Cunningham
She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it.
— Michael Cunningham
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
I'm just a child who's learned to impersonate an adult.
— Michael Cunningham
Most of us can be counted on to manage our own undoings.
— Michael Cunningham
Zoe loved Trancas's mother. She respected her exhausted and ironic hope for rebirth.
— Michael Cunningham
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
Insomniacs know better than anyone how it would be to haunt a house.
— Michael Cunningham
You." "Likewise." They shake hands, head back to the elevator. Groff
— Michael Cunningham
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
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
Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become?
— Michael Cunningham
Visions are answers. Answers imply questions. It
— Michael Cunningham
One of the troubles with love is, you can't talk about it without feeling like you keep cueing old songs.
— Michael Cunningham
That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could happen, anything at all.
— Michael Cunningham
The implication of this particular tale is: Trust strangers. Believe in magic.
— Michael Cunningham
I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
— Michael Cunningham
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
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
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
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
If you live in certain places, in a certain way, you'd better learn to praise the small felicities.
— Michael Cunningham
As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
— Michael Cunningham
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
Maybe there is nothing, ever, that can equal the recollection of having been young together.
— Michael Cunningham
That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.
— Michael Cunningham
It's remarkable, being alive.
— Michael Cunningham
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
The secret of flight is this you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws. — Michael Cunningham
He felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.
— Michael Cunningham
I was not beautiful, but I believed I had the possibility of beauty in me.
— Michael Cunningham
I have no useful theories about love and marriage.
— Michael Cunningham
Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper.
— Michael Cunningham
You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.
— Michael Cunningham
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
Who has more power than a child? She can be as cruel as she wants to be. He can't.
— Michael Cunningham
I think pretty much everybody who says he needs money really and truly needs money.
— Michael Cunningham
She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.
— Michael Cunningham
What did Shakespeare say? Or little lives are rounded with a sleep.
— Michael Cunningham
But magic is sometimes all about knowing where the secret door is, and how to open it. With that, you're gone
— Michael Cunningham
Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
— Michael Cunningham
Youth is the only sexy tragedy.
— Michael Cunningham
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
I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.
— Michael Cunningham
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
I used to want to be a cheerleader," I told them. "Before I decided to just go to hell.
— Michael Cunningham
Mizzy has, again, wandered into the garden, like a child who feels no fealty to adult conversation.
— Michael Cunningham
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
She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.
— Michael Cunningham
God save us from people who think they're smarter than they actually are.
— Michael Cunningham
One of the reasons ordinary people are incapable of magic is simple dearth of conviction.
— Michael Cunningham
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
It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.
— Michael Cunningham
