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Insomniacs know better than anyone how it would be to haunt a house.

Michael Cunningham

Insomniacs know better than anyone how it would be to haunt a house.

Have faith that you will be here, recognizable to yourself, again tomorrow.

Michael Cunningham

Have faith that you will be here, recognizable to yourself, again tomorrow.

About Author
Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) 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 Professor in the Practice of Creative Writing at Yale University.

I wanted a settled life and a shocking one. Think of Van Gogh, cypress trees and church spires under a sky of writhing snakes. I was my father's daughter. I wanted to be loved by someone like my tough...

Michael Cunningham

I wanted a settled life and a shocking one. Think of Van Gogh, cypress trees and church spires under a sky of writhing snakes. I was my father's daughter. I wanted to be loved by someone like my tough...

Tags: desires, glbtq, indecision, romance

She pauses several treads from the bottom, listening, waiting; she is again possessed (it seems to be getting worse) by a dream-like feeling, as if she is standing in the wings, about to go onstage an...

Michael Cunningham

She pauses several treads from the bottom, listening, waiting; she is again possessed (it seems to be getting worse) by a dream-like feeling, as if she is standing in the wings, about to go onstage an...

Tags: domestic life, loved ones, numb depression, preparation to face the day, putting on an act

I’m not this unusual, she said. It’s just my hair.She looked at Bobby and she looked at me, with an expression at once disdainful and imploring. She was forty, pregnant, and in love with two men at on...

Michael Cunningham

I’m not this unusual, she said. It’s just my hair.She looked at Bobby and she looked at me, with an expression at once disdainful and imploring. She was forty, pregnant, and in love with two men at on...

Tags: glbtq, love, pregnancy, pregnant woman, romance, self doubt, threesome, triangle

Remember, how often the great art of the past didn't look great at first, how often it didn't look like art at all; how much easier it is, decades or centuries later, to adore it, not only because it...

Michael Cunningham

Remember, how often the great art of the past didn't look great at first, how often it didn't look like art at all; how much easier it is, decades or centuries later, to adore it, not only because it...

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....

Michael Cunningham

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....

Tags: change, drugs, glbtq, haircut, identity, life, possibilities

Were you relieved, maybe just a little, when they lifted you up (you weighed almost nothing by then) and shoved you into the oven? Did it seem unanticipated but right, somehow - did it strike you as s...

Michael Cunningham

Were you relieved, maybe just a little, when they lifted you up (you weighed almost nothing by then) and shoved you into the oven? Did it seem unanticipated but right, somehow - did it strike you as s...

Tags: fairy tale

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 ste...

Michael Cunningham

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 ste...

Tags: death, glbtq, life, love

It’s the country that would have him, since he lacked the necessary papers for more promising places.

Michael Cunningham

It’s the country that would have him, since he lacked the necessary papers for more promising places.

Tags: papers

Я хотела сказать ему, что мертвым мы должны еще меньше, чем живым, и что наша единственная, хотя и весьма сомнительная, возможность счастья — в безусловном приветствии перемен.

Michael Cunningham

Я хотела сказать ему, что мертвым мы должны еще меньше, чем живым, и что наша единственная, хотя и весьма сомнительная, возможность счастья — в безусловном приветствии перемен.

She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

Michael Cunningham

She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

Tags: ennui, exciting life, fantasy life, life worth living, regret, resignation

Julian is bluff and sturdy, royal; he possesses a gracefully muscular, equine beauty so natural it suggests that beauty itself is a fundamental human condition and not a mutation in the general design...

Michael Cunningham

Julian is bluff and sturdy, royal; he possesses a gracefully muscular, equine beauty so natural it suggests that beauty itself is a fundamental human condition and not a mutation in the general design...

Tags: beauty

We thought she was alright, we thought her sorrows were ordinary ones, We had no idea.

Michael Cunningham

We thought she was alright, we thought her sorrows were ordinary ones, We had no idea.

Tags: sucide

He’ll be successful, finally, this coming Sunday, at the modest ceremony to be held in the living room. It’s all so clear. Tyler will write a beautiful, meaningful song. Barrett will find a love that...

Michael Cunningham

He’ll be successful, finally, this coming Sunday, at the modest ceremony to be held in the living room. It’s all so clear. Tyler will write a beautiful, meaningful song. Barrett will find a love that...

What you are, more than anything, is alive.

Michael Cunningham

What you are, more than anything, is alive.

Most of us are safe. If you're not a delirious dream the gods are having, if your beauty doesn't trouble the constellations, nobody's going to cast a spell on you.

Michael Cunningham

Most of us are safe. If you're not a delirious dream the gods are having, if your beauty doesn't trouble the constellations, nobody's going to cast a spell on you.

Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.

Michael Cunningham

Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.

Tags: life, reflection, world

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

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.

Do you imagine, Peter, that your Carpe Diem boots would look any less deluded to them than that guy's Tony Lamas do to you? There's a comeuppance for everyone, wherever you are, and the farther you go...

Michael Cunningham

Do you imagine, Peter, that your Carpe Diem boots would look any less deluded to them than that guy's Tony Lamas do to you? There's a comeuppance for everyone, wherever you are, and the farther you go...