Michael Cunningham Quotes

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• Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is…
• On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and…
• Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the…
• Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high…
• You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast…
• You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally.
• Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.
• Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.
• Remember, how often the great art of the past didn't look great at first, how often it didn't look like art at all; how much…
• Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?
• It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.
• Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become?
• I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been told only one…
• I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.
• One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
• Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
• The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.
• There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.
• a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm
• She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.

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