Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself. You end up just sailing from port to port.

Michael Cunningham


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Outside the house is a world where the shelves are stocked, where radio waves are full of music, where young men walk the streets again, men who have deprievation and a fear worse than death, who have willingly given up their early twenties and now, thinking of thirty and beyond, haven't any time to spare.

Michael Cunningham


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...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

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...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


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The point of sex is...
Sex doesn't have a point.

Michael Cunningham

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What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story?

Michael Cunningham


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we become the stories we tell ourselves

Michael Cunningham


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The art we produce lives in queasy balance with the art we can imagine the art the room expects.

Michael Cunningham


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In heaven, Lucas would be beautiful. He’d speak a language everyone understood.

Michael Cunningham


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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

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