Michael Cunningham Quotes

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• I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some…
• I remember one morning getting up at dawn. There was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling. And I... I remember thinking to…
• I don't have any regrets, really, except that one. I wanted to write about you, about us, really. Do you know what I mean? I…
• Like the morning you walked out of that old house, when you were eighteen and I was, well, I had just turned nineteen, hadn't I?…
• I don't know if I can face this. You know. The party and the ceremony, and then the hour after that, and the hour after…
• I feel like there's something terrible and wonderful and amazing that's just beyond my grasp. I have dreams about it. I do dream, by the…
• Yes," she answers and does not move. She might, at this moment, be nothing but a floating intelligence; not even a brain inside a skull,…
• She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this world, feels suddenly…
• He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but won't, possibly can't,…
• We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?
• Insomniacs know better than anyone how it would be to haunt a house.
• 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 an…
• Please, God, send me something to adore.
• Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to be that straight?
• Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.
• You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.
• She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.
• I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
• We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite…
• What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story?

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