I'd have liked to tell him something I'd taken almost 60 years to learn: that we owe the dead even less than we owe the living, that our only chance of happiness - a small enough chance - lay in welcoming change - Michael Cunningham Quotes
I'd have liked to tell him something I'd taken almost 60 years to learn: that we owe the dead even less than we owe the living, that our only chance of happiness - a small enough chance - lay in welcoming change Michael Cunningham
 

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[Yet the writer's lot has particular satisfactions.] When a novel is published, however it's received, ... it is the book you wrote, and a better version is not sitting on the cutting-room floor because your distributor insisted on 17 ill-advised cuts. - Michael Cunningham Quotes

[Yet the writer's lot has particular satisfactions.] When a novel is published, however it's received, ... it is the book you wrote, and a better version is not sitting on the cutting-room floor because your distributor insisted on 17 ill-advised cuts.

Michael Cunningham

 Books And Reading
We are happy to bring the ship in; it's the traffic going around it that's the problem. - Michael Cunningham Quotes

We are happy to bring the ship in; it's the traffic going around it that's the problem.

Michael Cunningham

 
But Scott is the only one I've met. - Michael Cunningham Quotes

But Scott is the only one I've met.

Michael Cunningham

 
A movie star seemed simply like the nearest equivalent we've got, we who live blessedly free of a monarchy, to that sense of the human form exalted, the life made fabulous simply by who and what the person is. - Michael Cunningham Quotes

A movie star seemed simply like the nearest equivalent we've got, we who live blessedly free of a monarchy, to that sense of the human form exalted, the life made fabulous simply by who and what the person is.

Michael Cunningham

 
I'd have liked to tell him something I'd taken almost 60 years to learn: that we owe the dead even less than we owe the living, that our only chance of happiness - a small enough chance - lay in welcoming change - Michael Cunningham Quotes

I'd have liked to tell him something I'd taken almost 60 years to learn: that we owe the dead even less than we owe the living, that our only chance of happiness - a small enough chance - lay in welcoming change

Michael Cunningham

 
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

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

 American Writer Trying
the worst are full of passionate intensity while the best lack all conviction. - Michael Cunningham Quotes

the worst are full of passionate intensity while the best lack all conviction.

Michael Cunningham

 Conviction
I'm sure there are any number of Hollywood producers who option novels and think, 'maybe this would make a good opera, - Michael Cunningham Quotes

I'm sure there are any number of Hollywood producers who option novels and think, 'maybe this would make a good opera,

Michael Cunningham

 Hollywood
I think great poetry is enormously powerful, - Michael Cunningham Quotes

I think great poetry is enormously powerful,

Michael Cunningham

 Poetry
It's like a light went off right at that moment, ... I could see my project. I knew I had something. I literally started working on it that next day. - Michael Cunningham Quotes

It's like a light went off right at that moment, ... I could see my project. I knew I had something. I literally started working on it that next day.

Michael Cunningham

 
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