A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people i…

Michael Cunningham
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A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if hes any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world. ✨ Michael Cunningham: A life in writing by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2011.
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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
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A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if hes any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world. ✨ Michael Cunningham: A life in writing by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2011.

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