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Great Quotes by Michael Cunningham
- I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
- The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
- 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…
- 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…
- Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost unbearably poignant recognition…
- The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book.…
- 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…
- I think great poetry is enormously powerful.
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