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Michael Cunningham Quotes

Michael Cunningham quotes

American Writer November 6, 1952

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A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the flame, they go into the flame and sizzle to nothingness because they're so eager to get to the light on the other side. Michael Cunningham
There’s just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we’ve ever imagined. Michael Cunningham
Man," he said, "I'm not afraid of graveyards. The dead are just, you know, people who wanted the same things you and I want."What do we want?" I asked blurrily."Aw, man, you know," he said. "We just want, well, the same things these people wanted."What was that?"He shrugged. "To live, I guess," he said. Michael Cunningham
...and when somebody comes up to me with big hair and gobs of makeup on and says, 'Can I help you,' it's all I can do not to scream, 'Bitch, you can't even help yourself. Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham quote: "I don't think two people could have been happier than we have..."
I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been." -Virginia Woolf Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham quote: "I'm just a child who's learned to impersonate an adult."
I'm just a child who's learned to impersonate an adult. Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham quote: "It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a..."
It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you. Michael Cunningham
Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to be that straight? Michael Cunningham
And yet, it gives Peter nothing. Not now. Not today. Not when he needs... more. More than this well-executed idea. More than the shark in the tank meant to frighten, more than the guy on the street meant to say something pithy about celebrity. More than this. Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham quote: "I have to keep reminding myself that almost everybody is..."
I have to keep reminding myself that almost everybody is always lying. Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham quote: "A writer should always feel like he's in over his head"
A writer should always feel like he's in over his head Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham quote: "She wants to have baked a cake that banishes sorrow, even if..."
She wants to have baked a cake that banishes sorrow, even if only for a little while. Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham quote: "What did Shakespeare say? Or little lives are rounded with a..."
What did Shakespeare say? Or little lives are rounded with a sleep. Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham quote: "The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately,..."
The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws. Michael Cunningham
It was either the wind or the spirit of the house itself, briefly unsettled by our nocturnal absence but to old to be surprised by the errands born from the gap between what we can imagine and what we can in fact create. Michael Cunningham

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