“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 Life Copy Share Image
I am beginning to understand the true difference between youth and age. Young people have time to make plans and think of… — Michael Cunningham Age Copy Share Image
“Catherine thought Simon was in the locket, and in heaven, and with them still. Lucas hoped she didn't expect him to be… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“He pours himself more coffee, draws out a final, really final, line on the tabletop. Maybe he’s just not … awake enough to… — Michael Cunningham Coffee Copy Share Image
“Barrett is a bigger guy, not fat (not yet) but ursine, crimson of eye and lip; ginger-furred, possessed (he likes to think)… — Michael Cunningham First kiss Copy Share Image
“Gus the driver is everywhere and yet he appears nowhere, not in portraits or photographs, not even in the stories of men… — Michael Cunningham Motivation Copy Share Image
..this indiscriminate love feels entirely serious to her, as if everything in the world is part of a vast, inscrutable intention and… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“You know what I am?" he says. "What?" "I'm an ordinary person." "Come on." "I know. Who isn't an ordinary person? How… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“who refuses to distinguish between setback and catastrophe; who worships accomplishment above all else and makes himself unbearable to others because he… — Michael Cunningham Failure Copy Share Image
I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“I’m sure there are people who are content to run errands and report for work on time and wait, with an enlivening… — Michael Cunningham Books Copy Share Image
I feel like there's something terrible and wonderful and amazing that's just beyond my grasp. I have dreams about it. I do… — Michael Cunningham Dream Copy Share Image
“from Labor Day through Halloween, the place is almost unbearably beautiful. The air during these weeks seems less like ether and more… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Children Copy Share Image
“Better, then, to go light on the sexual particulars, and think instead of who’s winning and who’s losing at any given point.… — Michael Cunningham Power Copy Share Image
He wanted to tell her that he was inspired and vigilant and recklessly alone, that his body contained his unsteady heart and… — Michael Cunningham Body Copy Share Image
At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Outside the house is a world where the shelves are stocked, where radio waves are full of music, where young men walk… — Michael Cunningham Death Copy Share Image
He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but… — Michael Cunningham Art Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Communication Copy Share Image
“And yet, it gives Peter nothing. Not now. Not today. Not when he needs... more. More than this well-executed idea. More than… — Michael Cunningham Fame Copy Share Image
She'd never imagined it like this-when she thought of someone (a woman like herself)losing her mind, she'd imagined shrieks and wails, hallucinations;… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I don't know if I can face this. You know. The party and the ceremony, and then the hour after that, and… — Michael Cunningham Ceremony Copy Share Image
I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite… — Michael Cunningham Book Copy Share Image
“However multilingual we may be as readers, we find ourselves faced with a fundamental, inescapable responsibility. We must understand that any book… — Michael Cunningham Books Copy Share Image
Her cake is a failure, but she is loved anyway. She is loved, she thinks, in more or less the way the… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Everything is infected with brightness, throbbing with it, and she prays for dark the way a wanderer lost in the desert prays… — Michael Cunningham Dark Copy Share Image
“What marriage doesn't involve uncountable accretions, a language of gestures, a sense of recognition sharp as a toothache? Unhappy, sure. What couple… — Michael Cunningham Divorce Copy Share Image
“Were you relieved, maybe just a little, when they lifted you up (you weighed almost nothing by then) and shoved you into… — Michael Cunningham Death Copy Share Image
Philip Glass, like [Virginia] Woolf, is more interested in that which continues than he is in that which begins, climaxes, and ends...… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Like the morning you walked out of that old house, when you were eighteen and I was, well, I had just turned… — Michael Cunningham Beautiful Copy Share Image
What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient… — Michael Cunningham Certainty Copy Share Image
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