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Book: The Hours
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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 _ 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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Michael Cunningham _ The Hours
I've felt it for some time now, closing around me like the jaws of a gigantic flower. Isn't that a peculiar analogy? It feels that way, though. It has a certain vegetable inevitability. Think of the Venus flytrap. Think of kudzu choking a forest. It's a sort of juicy, green, thriving process. Toward, well, you know. The green silence. Isn't it funny that, even now, it's difficult to say the word 'death'?
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Michael Cunningham _ The Hours
She loves the world for being rude and indestructible, and she knows that other people must love it too, poor as well as rich, though no one speaks specifically of the reasons. Why else do we struggle to go on living, no matter how compromised, no matter how harmed? Even when we're further gone than Richard; even if we're fleshless, blazing with lesions, shitting in the sheets; still, we want desperately to live.
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Michael Cunningham _ The Hours
It's the city's crush and heave that move you; its intricacy; its endless life. You know the story about Manhattan as a wilderness purchased for strings of beads, but you find it impossible not to believe that it has always been a city; that if you dug beneath it you would find the ruins of another, older city, and then another and another.
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