Life Quotes by Michael Cunningham

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

— Michael Cunningham

Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper.

— Michael Cunningham

“Beauty is a whore, I like money better.”

— Michael Cunningham

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

— Michael Cunningham

“He seemed to believe that from such humble, inert elements as flour, shortening, and drab little envelopes of yeast, life itself could…

— Michael Cunningham

“She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.”

— Michael Cunningham

“She has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she thinks, is wrong with her.”

— Michael Cunningham

“The art we produce lives in queasy balance with the art we can imagine the art the room expects.”

— 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…

— Michael Cunningham

“If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness.…

— Michael Cunningham

Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it…

— Michael Cunningham

“We worship numberless gods or idols, but we all need to be the grandest possible versions of ourselves, we need to walk…

— Michael Cunningham

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

What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient…

— Michael Cunningham

“It was either the wind or the spirit of the house itself, briefly unsettled by our nocturnal absence but to old to…

— Michael Cunningham

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

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if…

— Michael Cunningham

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

“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

“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

“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

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

At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like…

— Michael Cunningham

“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

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

“We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change…

— Michael Cunningham

“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

“I wanted a settled life and a shocking one. Think of Van Gogh, cypress trees and church spires under a sky of…

— Michael Cunningham

“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

“We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep - it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few…

— Michael Cunningham

“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

“She thinks of how much more space a being occupies in life that it does in death; how much illusion of size…

— Michael Cunningham

“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

“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

“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

Philip Glass, like [Virginia] Woolf, is more interested in that which continues than he is in that which begins, climaxes, and ends...…

— Michael Cunningham

“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

We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change…

— Michael Cunningham

What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient…

— Michael Cunningham