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Author: Michael Cunningham
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Michael Cunningham _ The Hours
Right now she is reading Virginia Woolf, all of Virginia Woolf, book by book-She is fascinated by the idea of a woman like that, a woman of such brilliance, such strangeness, such immeasurable sorrow; a woman who had genius but still filled her pocket with a stone and waded out into a river.
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Michael Cunningham _ Flesh and Blood
His father had a merciless eye that could find one bad straw in ten bales of good intentions.
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Michael Cunningham _ Flesh and Blood
he crawled among the gnarls and snags of his father's vineyard, tying errant tendrils back to the stakes with rough brown cord that was to his mind the exact color and texture of righteous, doomed effort.
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Michael Cunningham _ A Home at the End of the World
I admit it - there was a streak of sadism in my lusts. There was the taint of vanity. I choose ordinary men who would not refuse; who would feel lucky to have me. I did not thrill to the sight of their flesh - which was either bulky or scrawny but always abashed and grateful - so much as I did to the fact of their capture.
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Michael Cunningham _ The Hours
Do you want to much to live in London?" he asks."I do," she says. "I wish it were otherwise. I wish I were happy with the quiet life.""As do I.
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Michael Cunningham _ The Hours
Is this what it's like to go crazy? She'd never imagined it like this.
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Michael Cunningham _ The Hours
Not all people were meant to be lovers.
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Michael Cunningham _ The Hours
What you are, more than anything, is alive.
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Michael Cunningham _ The Hours
Superstitions are a comfort sometimes, I don't know why you so adamantly refuse all comforts.
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Michael Cunningham _ The Hours
She is not given to fawning over celebrities, no more than most people, but can't help being drawn to the aura of fame-and more than fame, actual immortality- implied by the presence of a movie star in a trailer.
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Michael Cunningham _ The Hours
She knew she was going to have trouble believing in herself, in the rooms of her house, and when she glanced over at this new book on her nightstand, stacked atop the one she finished last night, she reached for it automatically, as if reading were the singular and obvious first task of the day, the only viable way to negotiate the transit from sleep to obligation.
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Michael Cunningham _ The Hours
One error at the beginning is quite likely just that.
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