Michael Cunningham Short Quotes

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What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story?

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Insomniacs know better than anyone how it would be to haunt a house.

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She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.

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Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?

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She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

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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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Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

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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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One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

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The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

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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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That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could happen, anything at all.

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Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.

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Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become?

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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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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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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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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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Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.

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What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.

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I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

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You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally.

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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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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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