"Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink…" — Michael Cunningham
"Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper."
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101 Quotes by Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham has 101 quotes on this site.
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There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to…
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Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished…
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As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
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If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that…
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Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they…
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People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way…
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I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
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A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a…
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I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.
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You can't find peace by avoiding life.
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I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
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At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers…
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The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
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I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make…
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Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.
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Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in…
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Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I…
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead…
— Bernard Baruch
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves…
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The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it…
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA,…
— Kate Adie
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In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about…
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