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First Quotes by Michael Cunningham
- I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
- I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby…
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- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- If we bang on the first date chances are our relationship is lasting about as long as my erection. — Nikhil Saluja
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin