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Michael Cunningham Quotes

Please, God, send me something to adore Picture Quote #1

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard Picture Quote #1

A certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm Picture Quote #1

As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both ‘Moby Dick’ and ‘The Great Gatsby’ were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared Picture Quote #1

Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It’s James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it’s Marilyn heading off to bed Picture Quote #1

What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody’s little display of genius Picture Quote #1

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I’ve finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions Picture Quote #1

Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I’m finishing, even if it’s turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don’t admit it, they’re not being honest Picture Quote #1

On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it’s differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there Picture Quote #1

Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things Picture Quote #1

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You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it’s just this book Picture Quote #1

Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation resembles no book I’ve read before. If I tell you that it’s funny, and moving, and true; that it’s as compact and mysterious as a neutron; that it tells a profound story of love and parenthood while invoking (among others) Keats, Kafka, Einstein, Russian cosmonauts, and advice for the housewife of 1896, will you please simply believe me, and read it? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he’s any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Men may congratulate themselves for writing truly and passionately about the movements of nations; they may consider war and the search for God to be great literature’s only subjects; but if men’s standing in the world could be toppled by an ill-advised choice of hat, English literature would be dramatically changed Picture Quote #1

What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy’s other half Picture Quote #1

The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it’s the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair Picture Quote #1

Virginia Woolf’s great novel, ‘Mrs. Dalloway,’ is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old Picture Quote #1

We become the stories we tell ourselves Picture Quote #1

That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could happen, anything at all Picture Quote #1

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She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it Picture Quote #1

I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act Picture Quote #1

Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper Picture Quote #1

You can’t find peace by avoiding life Picture Quote #1

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things Picture Quote #1

I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds Picture Quote #1

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Please, God, send me something to adore (Michael Cunningham Quotes) You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard (Michael Cunningham Quotes) A certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm (Michael Cunningham Quotes) As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both ‘Moby Dick’ and ‘The Great Gatsby’ were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared. (Michael Cunningham Quotes) Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It’s James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it’s Marilyn heading off to bed (Michael Cunningham Quotes) What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run (Michael Cunningham Quotes) 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 Quotes) These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody’s little display of genius (Michael Cunningham Quotes) I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I’ve finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions (Michael Cunningham Quotes) Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I’m finishing, even if it’s turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don’t admit it, they’re not being honest (Michael Cunningham Quotes) On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it’s differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there (Michael Cunningham Quotes) Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things (Michael Cunningham Quotes) You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it’s just this book (Michael Cunningham Quotes) Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation resembles no book I’ve read before. If I tell you that it’s funny, and moving, and true; that it’s as compact and mysterious as a neutron; that it tells a profound story of love and parenthood while invoking (among others) Keats, Kafka, Einstein, Russian cosmonauts, and advice for the housewife of 1896, will you please simply believe me, and read it? (Michael Cunningham Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he’s any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world. (Michael Cunningham Quotes) 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 Quotes) Men may congratulate themselves for writing truly and passionately about the movements of nations; they may consider war and the search for God to be great literature’s only subjects; but if men’s standing in the world could be toppled by an ill-advised choice of hat, English literature would be dramatically changed. (Michael Cunningham Quotes) 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 Quotes) The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it’s the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair. (Michael Cunningham Quotes) Virginia Woolf’s great novel, ‘Mrs. Dalloway,’ is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old (Michael Cunningham Quotes) We become the stories we tell ourselves (Michael Cunningham Quotes) That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could happen, anything at all (Michael Cunningham Quotes) She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it (Michael Cunningham Quotes) I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act (Michael Cunningham Quotes) Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper (Michael Cunningham Quotes) You can’t find peace by avoiding life (Michael Cunningham Quotes) The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things (Michael Cunningham Quotes) I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds (Michael Cunningham Quotes)

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