What did Michael Cunningham mean by: It’s the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you. Michael Cunningham Author · USA Copy
I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Michael Cunningham, Discovery, Growth, Innocence, 0 Michael Cunningham Author · USA
Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Michael Cunningham, Existence, Gratitude, Humility, 0 Michael Cunningham Author · USA
She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Michael Cunningham, Danger, Literature, Potential, 0 Michael Cunningham Author · USA
That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could happen, anything at all. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Michael Cunningham, Freedom, Possibility, Youth, 0 Michael Cunningham Author · USA
As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Michael Cunningham, Authority, Communication, Writing, 0 Michael Cunningham Author · USA
Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Michael Cunningham, Arrogance, Compassion, Criticism, 0 Michael Cunningham Author · USA
There is a beauty in the world, though it’s harsher than we expect it to be. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Michael Cunningham, Beauty, Expectations, Harshness, 0 Michael Cunningham Author · USA
Love is deep, a mystery – who wants to understand its every particular? Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Michael Cunningham, Love, Mystery, Understanding, 0 Michael Cunningham Author · USA
People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity. Read explanation Charlie Munger Business person
See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan’s deflation is another’s inflation. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
