What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand… — Michael Cunningham Adventure Copy Share Image
“I see myself..in those pages as she goes back and forth, enjoying simply enjoying the beauties of the moments then chastising herself… — Michael Cunningham Beauty Copy Share Image
“Catherine thought Simon was in the locket, and in heaven, and with them still. Lucas hoped she didn't expect him to be… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“He pours himself more coffee, draws out a final, really final, line on the tabletop. Maybe he’s just not … awake enough to… — Michael Cunningham Coffee Copy Share Image
She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
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“Julian is bluff and sturdy, royal; he possesses a gracefully muscular, equine beauty so natural it suggests that beauty itself is a… — Michael Cunningham Beauty Copy Share Image
“THE PILGRIM MOTHERS AND FATHERS Provincetown’s first settlers were, in fact, the Pilgrims, who sailed the Mayflower into Provincetown Harbor in 1620.… — Michael Cunningham Fresh water 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
“What marriage doesn't involve uncountable accretions, a language of gestures, a sense of recognition sharp as a toothache? Unhappy, sure. What couple… — Michael Cunningham Divorce Copy Share Image
Her cake is a failure, but she is loved anyway. She is loved, she thinks, in more or less the way the… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“However multilingual we may be as readers, we find ourselves faced with a fundamental, inescapable responsibility. We must understand that any book… — Michael Cunningham Books Copy Share Image
“Everything is infected with brightness, throbbing with it, and she prays for dark the way a wanderer lost in the desert prays… — Michael Cunningham Dark Copy Share Image
“Were you relieved, maybe just a little, when they lifted you up (you weighed almost nothing by then) and shoved you into… — Michael Cunningham Death 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 Certainty Copy Share Image
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“The world is full of Guses--good-looking boys and girls who've been dealt the best possible genetic hand by parents and grandparents and… — Michael Cunningham Art Copy Share Image
“Utter objectivity...is not only impossible when judging literature, it’s not exactly desirable. Fiction involves trace elements of magic; it works for reasons… — Michael Cunningham Books Copy Share Image
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“In a sense Provincetown is a beach. If you stand on the shore watching the tide recede, you are merely that much… — Michael Cunningham Extreme weather 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 Death Copy Share Image
“Peter hesitates. "Ridiculous" is the least of it. How about offensive, insulting? How about the implication that "someone who's never used" is… — Michael Cunningham First place 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 Desire Copy Share Image
“Parents are the mystified criminals, blinking in the docks, making it all the worse for themselves with every word they utter.” — Michael Cunningham Child Copy Share Image
I am beginning to understand the true difference between youth and age. Young people have time to make plans and think of… — Michael Cunningham Age 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 Life Copy Share Image
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“There is still that singular perfection, and its perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll… — Michael Cunningham Assumption Copy Share Image
“Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself. You end up… — Michael Cunningham Love 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 Alive Copy Share Image
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We’d hoped for love of a different kind, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
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Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be… — 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 Life Copy Share Image
“It’s better, really, to go out in a blaze. That’s why we love Marilyn, and James Dean. We love the ones who… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
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