Religion Quotes by Michael Cunningham

8 Religion quotes by Michael Cunningham

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Cunningham’s prose often explores identity and inner life, and his occasional musings on spirituality carry that subtlety. In this short selection you’ll sense a quiet, introspective approach to belief.

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Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll…

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If she were religious, she would call it the soul. It is more than the sum of her intellect and her emotions,…

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“Tyler. His handsome, lion-eyed ravagement. His capacity for devotion. Which is so sexy. Why do so many gay men lack that? Why…

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“Barret thinks- he thinks, briefly- of turning around and leaving the park; of being, this time, the vanisher, the man who leaves…

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These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit…

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“She'd never been religious. She hadn't allowed grief to send her crawling to the church.”

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

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“Milwaukee, Rebecca. Order and sobriety and a devotion to cleanliness that scours out the soul. Decent people doing their best to live…

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“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…

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“Zoe loved Trancas's mother. She respected her exhausted and ironic hope for rebirth.”

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

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“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…

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“...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…

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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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“She wants to have baked a cake that banishes sorrow, even if only for a little while.”

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“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…

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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…

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The worst are full of passionate intensity while the best lack all conviction.

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“And here he is, letting the massive steel street door click shut behind him, standing at the top of the three iron steps that…

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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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“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,"…

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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…

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

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