we become the stories we tell ourselves

Michael Cunningham
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we become the stories we tell ourselves
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You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes. ✨ Michael Cunningham (1998). The Hours: A Novel, p.21, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself. ✨ Michael Cunningham (1998). The Hours: A Novel, p.97, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hope … ▶
I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful. ✨ Michael Cunningham (2010). A Home at the End of the World: A Novel, p.10, Ma … ▶
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. ✨ Mich … ▶

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