She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“The art we produce lives in queasy balance with the art we can imagine the art the room expects.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“She has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she thinks, is wrong with her.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“He seemed to believe that from such humble, inert elements as flour, shortening, and drab little envelopes of yeast, life itself could… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is... It was… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“It was either the wind or the spirit of the house itself, briefly unsettled by our nocturnal absence but to old to… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“We worship numberless gods or idols, but we all need to be the grandest possible versions of ourselves, we need to walk… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness.… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Clarissa, sane Clarissa-exultant, ordinary Clarissa- will go on, loving London, loving her life of ordinary pleasure, and someone else, a deranged poet,… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It’s as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“I'm talking about a little truth-in-packaging here. To be perfectly frank, you don't quite look like yourself. And if you walk around… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The kiss was innocent--innocent enough--but it was also full of something not unlike what Virginia wants from London, from life; it was… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“He’ll be successful, finally, this coming Sunday, at the modest ceremony to be held in the living room. It’s all so clear.… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“The song is an unvarnished love shout, an implorement tinged with...anger? Something like anger, but the anger of a philosoher, the anger… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Philip Glass, like [Virginia] Woolf, is more interested in that which continues than he is in that which begins, climaxes, and ends...… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Do you ever think? What? They were lying together on the sofa that had always been there, the crappy beat-up biscuit-colored sofa… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“She's had a long life. Now she's going to the Lord." "Frankly it creeps me out a little when you say things… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep - it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“I wanted a settled life and a shocking one. Think of Van Gogh, cypress trees and church spires under a sky of… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“She thinks of how much more space a being occupies in life that it does in death; how much illusion of size… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“It’s your life, quite possibly your only one. Still you find yourself having a vodka at three a.m., waiting for your pill… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
It's the city's crush and heave that move you; its intricacy; its endless life. You know the story about Manhattan as a… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“There are times when you don't belong and you think you're going to kill yourself. Once I went to a hotel. Later… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“And so, a never-ending, rather edgy conversation between them, an undercurrent of roiling sound that reminded them they were married, they had… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Mizzy has wandered into the garden. Carole looks contemplatively at him, says, "Lovely boy." "My wife's insanely younger brother. He's one of those kids… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
“Zoe loved Trancas's mother. She respected her exhausted and ironic hope for rebirth.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
“How often since then has she wondered what might have happened if she'd tried to remain with him; if she’d returned Richard's kiss on… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
“...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… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become? — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
“She wants to have baked a cake that banishes sorrow, even if only for a little while.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
“And yet, it gives Peter nothing. Not now. Not today. Not when he needs... more. More than this well-executed idea. More than the shark… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
He insists on a version of you that is funnier, stranger, more eccentric and prfound thatn you suspect yourself to be--capable of doing more… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
The worst are full of passionate intensity while the best lack all conviction. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
“And here he is, letting the massive steel street door click shut behind him, standing at the top of the three iron steps that… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
“She's had a long life. Now she's going to the Lord." "Frankly it creeps me out a little when you say things like that,"… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
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… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share
![“Philip Glass, like [Virginia] Woolf, is more interested in that which continues than he is in that which begins, climaxes, and ends... Glass and Woolf have both broken out of the traditional realm of the story, whether literary or musical, in favor of something more meditative, less neatly…” quote by Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c6f/michael-cunningham-1120_broken_philip-glass-like-virginia-woolf-is-more_1216205.jpg)
