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Michael Cunningham is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. Cunningham is a senior lecturer of creative writing at Yale University. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. November 1952  •  Other names مایکل کانینقهام
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Works

The Hours
The Hours
Michael Cunningham
By Nightfall
By Nightfall
Michael Cunningham
A Home at the End of the World
The Hours
The Hours
Michael Cunningham
By Nightfall
By Nightfall
Michael Cunningham
A Home at the End of the World
Michael Cunningham: 28 quotes2 likes

Famous Michael Cunningham Quotes

“I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.”

Michael Cunningham book A Home at the End of the World

Source: A Home at the End of the World

“What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.”

Michael Cunningham book The Hours

Source: The Hours

“She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this world, feels suddenly stunned and stunted, far from everything.”

Michael Cunningham book The Hours

Source: The Hours

“Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.”

Michael Cunningham book The Hours

Source: The Hours

Michael Cunningham Quotes about life

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.”

Michael Cunningham book The Hours

Variant: You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Source: The Hours

“What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is… It was death. I chose life.”

Michael Cunningham book The Hours

Source: The Hours

Michael Cunningham Quotes about people

“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 book The Hours

Source: The Hours

Michael Cunningham Quotes

“The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.”

Michael Cunningham book A Home at the End of the World

Source: A Home at the End of the World

“There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.”

Michael Cunningham book The Hours

Source: The Hours

“Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.”

Michael Cunningham book The Hours

Source: The Hours

“we become the stories we tell ourselves”

Michael Cunningham book A Home at the End of the World

Source: A Home at the End of the World

“Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give.”

Michael Cunningham book A Home at the End of the World

Source: A Home at the End of the World

“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 book The Hours

Source: The Hours

“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 book The Hours

Source: The Hours

“This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.”

Michael Cunningham book A Home at the End of the World

Source: A Home at the End of the World

“There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.”

Michael Cunningham book The Hours

Source: The Hours

“She will remain sane and she will live as she was meant to live, richly and deeply, among others of her kind, in full possession and command of her gifts.”

Michael Cunningham book The Hours

Source: The Hours

“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 book By Nightfall

Source: By Nightfall

“Please, God, send me something to adore.”

Michael Cunningham book By Nightfall

Source: By Nightfall

“Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.”

Michael Cunningham book By Nightfall

Source: By Nightfall

“A celestial light appeared to Barrett Meeks in the sky over Central Park, four days after Barrett had been mauled, once again, by love. It was by no means his first romantic dropkick, but it was the first to have been conveyed by way of a five-line text, the fifth line of which was a crushingly corporate wish for good luck in the future, followed by three lowercase xxx’s.”

Michael Cunningham

The Snow Queen (2014)

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