Beauty is a whore, I like money better.
("The Hours")
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Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it. To love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard. Always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.Michael Cunningham
and didn't feel especially good at it but did feel a kind of bottomless interest in the process, which has never ceased.
Michael Cunningham
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
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.
Michael Cunningham
Like any powerful creation, can be used in a number of ways... in this book, which chronicles various dissolutions and breakages, there is still Walt Whitman, the dogged optimist.
Michael Cunningham
Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
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