14 Quotes by Michael Cunningham about Life
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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Beauty is a whore, I like money better.
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One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
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I'm talking about a little truth-in-packaging here. To be perfectly frank, you don't quite look like yourself. And if you walk around looking like someone other than who you are, you could end up getting the wrong job, the wrong friends, who knows what-all. You could end up with somebody else's life."I shrugged again, and smiled. "This is my life," I said. "It doesn't seem like the wrong one.
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I suppose at heart it was the haircut that did it; that exploded the ordinary order of things and showed me the possibilities that had been there all along, hidden among the patterns in the wallpaper. In a different age, we used to take acid for more or less the same reason.
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I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
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Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
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I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some unguessable other place. His move from life to death might resemble my stepping into the kitchen - into its soft nowhere quality and foggy hum. I breathed the dark air. If I had at that moment a sense of calm kindly death while my heart beat and my lungs expanded, he might know a similar sense of life in the middle of his ongoing death.
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Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.
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