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Michael Cunningham Quotes

Michael Cunningham quotes

American Writer November 6, 1952

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I suppose at heart it was the haircut that did it; that exploded the ordinary order of things and showed me the possibilities that had been there all along, hidden among the patterns in the wallpaper. In a different age, we used to take acid for more or less the same reason. Michael Cunningham
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. Michael Cunningham
Gus the driver is everywhere and yet he appears nowhere, not in portraits or photographs, not even in the stories of men like Barthelme and Carver, who were all about guys with jobs and prospects like Gus's but who insisted on more sorrow, more angst, than Gus remotely manifests. If Gus weeps sometimes for no reason, if he stands despairing in the aisle of a Wal-Mart, it is not apparent in his daily demeanor... Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham quote: "One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage..."
One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper. Michael Cunningham
Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write. Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham quote: "She has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she..."
She has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she thinks, is wrong with her. Michael Cunningham
he's filled with a sense of childish release, the old feeling that because you are sick, all your trials and obligations have been suspended. Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham quote: "Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to..."
Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become? Michael Cunningham
Parents are the mystified criminals, blinking in the docks, making it all the worse for themselves with every word they utter. Michael Cunningham
I know, speaking for myself, no matter what I'm able to do, no matter what book comes out and ends up on paper, I always had something bigger and grander in my head. Michael Cunningham
...sanity involves a certain measure of impersonation, not simply for the benefit of husband and servants but for the sake, first and foremost, of one's own convictions. Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham quote: "What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the..."
What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half. Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham quote: "Mizzy has, again, wandered into the garden, like a child who..."
Mizzy has, again, wandered into the garden, like a child who feels no fealty to adult conversation. Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham quote: "Who has more power than a child? She can be as cruel as she..."
Who has more power than a child? She can be as cruel as she wants to be. He can't. Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham quote: " . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only..."
. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting. Michael Cunningham

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