Michael Cunningham Quotes

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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 good…
• What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most…
• Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more…
• What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is... It was death. I chose…
• There is just this for consolation: an hour here or there, when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give…
• . . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.
• These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's…
• Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last…
• There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
• She will remain sane and she will live as she was meant to live, richly and deeply, among others of her kind, in full possession…
• ..this indiscriminate love feels entirely serious to her, as if everything in the world is part of a vast, inscrutable intention and everything in the…
• If she were religious, she would call it the soul. It is more than the sum of her intellect and her emotions, more than the…
• The kiss was innocent--innocent enough--but it was also full of something not unlike what Virginia wants from London, from life; it was full of a…
• The vestibule door opens onto a June morning so fine and scrubbed Classira pauses at the threshold as she would at the edge of a…
• What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.
• This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.
• Her cake is a failure, but she is loved anyway. She is loved, she thinks, in more or less the way the gifts will be…
• A writer should always feel like he's in over his head
• Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.
• He wanted to tell her that he was inspired and vigilant and recklessly alone, that his body contained his unsteady heart and something else, something…

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