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Inspirational Quotes by Michael Cunningham
- There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us…
- Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper.
- You can't find peace by avoiding life.
- I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
- I have no useful theories about love and marriage.
- Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become?
- Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
- She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.
- There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
- This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.
- A writer should always feel like he's in over his head
- We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?
- Insomniacs know better than anyone how it would be to haunt a house.
- Please, God, send me something to adore.
- 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.
- What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story?
- we become the stories we tell ourselves
- That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could happen, anything at all.
- You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.
- But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.
- She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it.
- That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento