"There is a beauty in the world, though……" — Michael Cunningham

"There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be."

— Michael Cunningham

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101 Quotes by Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham has 101 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to…
Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished…
As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that…
Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they…
People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way…
I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a…
I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.
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.

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More Beauty Quotes

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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