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Letter "M" » Michael Cunningham Quotes
«We are happy to bring the ship in; it's the traffic going around it that's the problem.»
«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.»
«I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been told only one story, over and over. Like most children, they believe in an easily identifiable good and evil, and like most children, they are capable of unthinkable cruelty.»
«and didn't feel especially good at it but did feel a kind of bottomless interest in the process, which has never ceased.»
«[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.»
«a whole new way of living and thinking about ourselves suddenly burst upon us. And walking through all this, there's Walt Whitman saying 'I find it all remarkable and strange and beautiful'. I was so struck by his ecstatic moving through this terrible place, and I thought he should be the spirit and soul of the book.»
«I'm a remarkably unremarkable person»
«We've been here for 150 years and we intend on being here 150 more.»
«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»