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Thinking Quotes by Michael Cunningham
- People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.
- A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if hes any good,…
- I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.
- Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is…
- I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been told only one…
- Her cake is a failure, but she is loved anyway. She is loved, she thinks, in more or less the way the gifts will be…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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,…
- I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
- I am beginning to understand the true difference between youth and age. Young people have time to make plans and think of new ideas. Older…
- She thinks how much more space a being occupies in life than it does in death; how much illusion of size is contained in gestures…
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