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The Hours

The Hours

The Hours is a 1998 novel written by Michael Cunningham. It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was later made into an Oscar-winning 2002 film of the same name starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore.


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

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

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