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A Home at the End of the World

A Home at the End of the World
Michael Cunningham

A Home at the End of the World is a 1990 novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Michael Cunningham.

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

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“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.”

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

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“we become the stories we tell ourselves”

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

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