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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

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About Michael Cunningham

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.