English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:
Michael Cunningham Quotes

Michael Cunningham quotes

American Writer November 6, 1952

Michael Cunningham quotes in french
Michael Cunningham quotes in russian
 Cite this Page: Citation

Quotes

I'm talking about a little truth-in-packaging here. To be perfectly frank, you don't quite look like yourself. And if you walk around looking like someone other than who you are, you could end up getting the wrong job, the wrong friends, who knows what-all. You could end up with somebody else's life."I shrugged again, and smiled. "This is my life," I said. "It doesn't seem like the wrong one. Michael Cunningham
If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed. Michael Cunningham
We’d hoped for love of a different kind, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander ideas of ourselves. Michael Cunningham
Any other vexations to report?" he asks."I love the word 'vexations.'"It's the 'x.' Nice to jump off a 'v' and bite into an 'x' like that."Just the usual ones," she says."How was the weekend?"Vexing. Not really, I just wanted to say it. You? Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham quote: "I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds."
I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds. Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham quote: "Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at..."
Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am. Michael Cunningham
This love of theirs, with its reassuring domesticity and its easy silences, its permanence, has yoked Sally directly to the machinery of mortality itself. Now there is a loss beyond imagining. Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham quote: "I have no useful theories about love and marriage."
I have no useful theories about love and marriage. Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham quote: "One of the troubles with love is, you can't talk about it..."
One of the troubles with love is, you can't talk about it without feeling like you keep cueing old songs. Michael Cunningham
..this indiscriminate love feels entirely serious to her, as if everything in the world is part of a vast, inscrutable intention and everything in the world has its own secret name, a name that cannot be conveyed in language but is simply the sight and feel of the thing itself. Michael Cunningham
Here is what unsayable about us: Jonathan and I are members of a team so old nobody else could join even if we wanted them to. What binds us is stronger than sex. It is stronger than love. We're related. Each of us is the other born into a different flesh. Michael Cunningham
Venture too far for love... and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself. You end up just sailing from port to port. Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham quote: "Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce..."
Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself. Michael Cunningham
I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some unguessable other place. His move from life to death might resemble my stepping into the kitchen - into its soft nowhere quality and foggy hum. I breathed the dark air. If I had at that moment a sense of calm kindly death while my heart beat and my lungs expanded, he might know a similar sense of life in the middle of his ongoing death. Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham quote: "You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that..."
You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes. Michael Cunningham

Popular Author

Related Authors